Nathan Seiberg

Nathan Seiberg (born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, and winner of the 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Quotes Gravity is not an option in string theory. It is a logical consequence of it! The Pursuit of Unification: Fulfilling Einstein's Dream (public talk) 2004 https://www.sns.ias.edu/sites/default/files/Unification05.pdf Most string theorists are very arrogant ... If there is something [beyond string theory], we will call it string theory. as quoted by Alok Jha in: String fellows 19 January 2005 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/20/science.research The quantum dualities, which are known as S-duality or U-duality, extend the classical T-duality and lead to a beautiful and coherent picture of stringy dualities. These exchange highly quantum situations with semiclassical backgrounds, exchange different branes, etc. As in the classical dualities, among all dual descriptions there is at most one description which is natural because it is semiclassical. All other dual descriptions are very quantum mechanical. Emergent spacetime arXiv preprint hep-th/0601234 2006 6 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601234 Supersymmetry arises naturally in string theory. (It was originally motivated by string theory.) The World's Largest Experiment 2013 https://www.sns.ias.edu/sites/default/files/World's_largest_experiment_%20Delhi.pdf (public talk at Tryst, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters. Where Is Fundamental Physics Headed? (public talk) 2014 https://www.sns.ias.edu/sites/default/files/Where%20is%20Fundamental%20Physics%20Heading%20Public.pdf Whenever you work on something and try to solve one problem, and you end up helping or solving many other problems, it is a sign that what you are doing is good. as quoted by Sandhya Ramesh in: Interview: 'There's No Conflict Between Lack of Evidence of String Theory and Work Being Done on It' The Wire, Bengaluru 7 January 2018 https://thewire.in/science/theres-no-conflict-lack-evidence-string-theory-work-done External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Physicists from Israel Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:People from Tel Aviv Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:Princeton University faculty