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Witten's work has taught us an enormous amount about the structure of ordinary quantum field theory. It's important even without strings. Indeed, Witten was al
by auntienomen 9y ago
Witten's work has taught us an enormous amount about the structure of ordinary quantum field theory. It's important even without strings. Indeed, Witten was already a dominant influence in the physics community when he began working on string theory.
- abecedarius 9y agoThanks -- that's more the sort of info I was hoping to find out.
- ssivark 9y agoAnother nugget: one of the leading experimental approaches to search for dark matter “direct detection” (which would be a Nobel prize worthy discovery) has its origins in a paper coauthored by Ed Witten: http://inspirehep.net/record/207030 http://inspirehep.net/record/207030