Old Puzzles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
In this talk I first briefly review how far we have come in answering old questions about the most fundamental building blocks of matter. I begin with things we know, which is the Standard Model, and then talk about things we can guess, which is superstring theory. After this review I discuss a key point at which our understanding of superstring theory presently stops: the problem of supersymmetry breaking and the cosmological constant. I explain in which direction I imagine a way out. This way out predicts gravitinos and dilatons with masses of order milli-eV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207203,
title = {Old Puzzles},
author = {Christof Schmidhuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207203},
year = {2007}
}