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Edward Whitten
(26 Aug 1951 - )
American theoretical physicist who has made major contributions to the superstring theory.
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Science Quotes by Edward Whitten (3 quotes)
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.
— Edward Whitten
In Nina L. Diamond, Voices of Truth (2000), 324.
String Theory is a part of twenty-first century physics that fell by chance into the twentieth century.
— Edward Whitten
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Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.
— Edward Whitten
His synopsis of lecture, University of Maryland Distinguished Lecture Series (2 Mar 1998), on web page.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
