Is This the Third Revolution for String Theory?

摘要

Every so often the Hot Papers table of Science Watch captures a revolution in science. In the early 1990s buckyballs held center stage for a while, followed by light-emitting diodes. Then we had a flood of Hot Papers on high-temperature superconductivity, a field that is still with us at positions #2 and #5. Physics Hot Papers of the last ten years beautifully captured the emergence of a consensus cosmology, and the reshaping of that subject as precision science.