University Lecture Series

String Theory as Quantum Gravity Invited Lecture by Prof. Amanda Peet ( University of Toronto Department of Physics   and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ) Friday 14th October 2005 University Lecture Series Tanz Neuroscience Building, room 6 St George campus, University of Toronto

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Other related awp stuff

• A more detailed explanation, written for an exceptional fifth-grader named Matt, of why gravitons and photons arise as (respectively) the groundstates of closed and open strings.
• Ontario Science Centre lecture on special relativity (during Einstein celebration)
• Most accessible presentations
• home page

Elsewhere on the web

• The Elegant Universe - NOVA TV show website [ my interview ]
• superstringtheory.com (Webmistress: Patricia Schwarz, Ph.D. in string theory)

Good books on the market

• Universe on a T-shirt , by Dan Falk, 2002 [suitable for poets]
• The Elegant Universe , by Brian Greene, 2000
• The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, 2003
• Cosmic Landscape, by Leonard Susskind, 2005
• Warped Passages, by Lisa Randall, 2005

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