Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at MIT:

Tuesday, March 30, 2004
2:30 pm
Kolker Room (Room 26-414)
Refreshments at 2:00, same location

"The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory"


Leonard Susskind
Stanford University

Abstract:

In this lecture I make some educated guesses, about the landscape of string theory vacua. Based on the recent work of a number of authors, it seems plausible that the lanscape is unimaginably large and diverse. Whether we like it or not, this is the kind of behavior that gives credence to the Anthropic Principle. I discuss the theoretical and conceptual issues that arise in developing a cosmology based on the diversity of environments implicit in string theory.

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