Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Richard Dawid (21 January on Zoom)

On Friday, 21 January, Richard Dawid (Stockholm University) will give a talk titled “Final but Incomplete – What String Theory May Suggest for 21st Century Physics” (abstract below).

The meeting will be online on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so here.

You can address any inquiry to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl.

ABSTRACT

String theory has not come close to a complete formulation after half a century of intense research. On the other hand, a number of features of the theory suggest that the theory, once completed, may be a final theory. It is argued in this talk that those two conspicuous characteristics of string physics are related to each other. The property that links them together is the fact that string theory has no free parameters at a fundamental level. The talk will discuss what finality could mean under the given circumstances and will look at possible implications of this situation for the long term prospects of theory building in fundamental physics.