no code implementations • 24 Dec 2020 • Michael Dine, Nicolas Fernandez, Akshay Ghalsasi, Hiren H. Patel
We review and elaborate on these questions, and provide several qualitative arguments that parametrically strings are already accounted for by the assumption of random misalignment angles.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2020 • Michael Dine, Jamie A. P. Law-Smith, Shijun Sun, Duncan Wood, Yan Yu
While arguably there have been some successes, this has proven challenging, leading to the de Sitter swampland conjecture: quantum theories of gravity do not admit stable or metastable de Sitter space.
High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
