String theory actually being useful? That's new!https://twitter.com/sambowne/status/888826114474262528 …
Just to make sure I get that: it's not string theory that's useful here, but the kind of math developed for string theory?
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I dont think that judgement would be fair. The AdS/CFT duality is a genuine string theory result
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The point is that a conformal field theory on a surface (a horizon, not necessarily black hole) is equivalent to string theory in the volume
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With an anti-de-sitter space being that volume
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Thats called the holographic principle and to me it's one of string theory's most interesting and inspiring results
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One should mention the holographic principle is in most cases still conjectural and has been mathematically rigoursly only been proven in
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Certain special cases. Spoken as a mathematician
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Oh, there is more than the one original case i see, that is new to me ^^
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