The Case for String Theory - Sixty Symbols
Dr Tony Padilla on why he thinks there's a compelling case for String Theory... This is one of our occasional longer-form interviews. Longer interviews with Ed Copeland: http://bit.ly/CopelandGoes...
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I wanted to talk about and why I think string theory is probably right and I'm not a string theorist, I'm a cosmologist there is a debate and it's an extensive debate within the scientific community is probably more of a debate was given is given more credence i think by the public that than within science itself but you know what is the correct theory of a quantum gravity is it string theory or is it one of the other suggested alternatives and I'm in the string theory camp and just wanted to sort of say why really so string theory basically in a nutshell postulates that all the building blocks of nature so you normally think of these like being little particles string theory says that well no they're not little particles t...
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I wanted to talk about and why I think string theory is probably right and I'm not a string theorist, I'm a cosmologist there is a debate and it's an extensive debate within the scientific community is probably more of a debate was given is given more credence i think by the public that than within science itself but you know what is the correct theory of a quantum gravity is it string theory or is it one of the other suggested alternatives and I'm in the string theory camp and just wanted to sort of say why really so string theory basically in a nutshell postulates that all the building blocks of nature so you normally think of these like being little particles string theory says that well no they're not little particles t...
