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Quantum Gravity at the Planck Length
I describe our understanding of physics near the Planck length, in particular the great progress of the last four years in string theory. Lectures presented at the 1998 SLAC Summer Institute. ∗Supported by NSF Grants PHY94-07194 and PHY97-22022.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Classical and Quantum Gravity
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0264-9381,1361-6382
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/15/4/009