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Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory

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The Heterotic String Theory

The standard model, like forces, was a group symmetry called e eight. The resert of a nogo theorem at had been shown that groups like e were not compatible with symmetry. And so by sort ofor sort of gluing the two together in a particular way, we were able to find something that had all the right properties to describe the standard model. Loo call tat a, called the heterotic string troiss,. You know, once again, strinkthers with their terminology.

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