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The Landscape "avant la lettre"

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A.N. Schellekens

History and Philosophy of Physics · Submitted 18 Apr 2006

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The authors' main claim The topic of that speech, intended for a general audience, was what is now called "The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory".

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CitationA.N. Schellekens. "The Landscape "avant la lettre"." arXiv:physics/0604134 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/TGU3LWPM
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This is a translation of an inaugural speech given originally in Dutch in 1998. The topic of that speech, intended for a general audience, was what is now called "The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory".

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This is a translation of an inaugural speech given originally in Dutch in 1998. The topic of that speech, intended for a general audience, was what is now called "The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory".

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  • I can say this without being accused of trying to put a positive spin on the recent developments, because I actually wrote in 1998 [ref] that I hoped string theory would ultimately lead to a huge number of possible choices for the laws of physics, a point of view I have been advocating since the late eighties.

    The Emperor's Last Clothes? · Introduction · 0.96

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  • As is well known —$$ some would say “notorious" —$$ string theory admits a “very large" number of internally consistent basic models of the Universe: this is the string Landscape [ref] [ref] [ref] .

    The Arrow Of Time In The Landscape · ? · 0.99

  • Examples are Dirac's large number hypothesis in astrophysics [ref] , chaotic inflation [ref] , quantum cosmology [ref] , the cosmological constant [ref] , the weak scale in the Standard Model [ref] , quark and lepton masses in the Standard Model [ref] , the Standard Model in string theory [ref] and the cosmological constant in string theory [ref] .

    Life at the Interface of Particle Physics and String Theory · Anthropic Landscapes · 0.93

  • [equation] (To put this in perspective: this is the full classification of a (tiny) fraction of the the moduli space of 2d CFTs, the “landscape” of string theory [ref] .) However, an actual proof of $𝐋_CS ↦Z_MTC$ had been elusive.

    Quantization via Linear homotopy types · The need for Lagrangian TQFT and Quantization · 0.98

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