Physics In Higher Dimensions - Proceedings Of The 2nd Jerusalem Winter School For Theoretical Physics - Volume 2

Download or read book Physics In Higher Dimensions - Proceedings Of The 2nd Jerusalem Winter School For Theoretical Physics - Volume 2 written by Tsvi Piran and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years there has been a revival of interest in the old idea that spacetime may have more than four dimensions, all but four having been curled up into a small circumference. In this view the various particles and interactions we see at ordinary energies arise from a simple, perhaps purely geometrical, theory in higher dimensions. This idea has profound implications for elementary particle physics and cosmology, and raises challenging problems of mathematics. These matters were the topic of the Second Jerusalem Winter School of Theoretical Physics.