All of that is based on the Maldacena Conjecture and the viscosity of the quark-gluon pasma as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...these are a few of my favourite things! > > In the 12/10/13 issue of "New Scientist", in an article entitled "All or > nothing?" I read that "certain aspects of the behaviour of [high > temperature superconductors] are much easier to capture using the > mathematics of string theory." > > And... > > "every state of matter matches up with a gravitational scenario that can > be described using (...) string theory. Superconductors can be understood > as stars made of charged particles and (...) Higgs bosons. Classical > liquids can be modelled using the mathematics of black holes that do not > have spin and have no electric charge." > > That struck me as rather mind-boggling. How can a theory of 10 (?) > dimensional space-time and vibrating strings relate stars to > superconductors, etc? (And are there other parallelisms waiting to be > discovered - other physical phenomena that are mathematically identical > when they go through the looking glass, as it were?) > > This seems to me to be saying something profound about reality. I just > wish I knew what it was. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
