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Article: Stings and webs: tying black holes to elementary particles in string theory.
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- Science News
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- August 26, 1995
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To build a universe like the one we inhabit and observe requires the right sorts of energy and matter interacting in appropriate ways.
The standard model of particle physics includes such basic ingredients as quarks, gluons, electrons, and neutrinos. Rooted in the notion of quantum fields, the equations of this theory describe the forces acting between subatomic particles such as quarks and electrons (SN: 7/1/95, p.10).
But there's no place in this framework for gravity. A separate theory and different equations present this fundamental force as a consequence of the curvature of space and time (SN: 12/3/94, p.376).
Albert Einstein's general theory ...