Talk:String theory

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The purpose of this textbook is primarilly for learning, not so much as a reference. Therefore, try not to leave too much work up to the reader.

I have begun this book with a chapter on supersymmetry. This only needs to be an introduction to give the reader a feel for it. To learn most easily, I find that it works best to discuss only one topic at a time rather than to throw many things at the reader at once, and therefore supersymmetry may need its own discussion independant of strings.

Strings are introduced as classical relativistic theories with a 2D conformal invariance. I think this development is more logical and elegant than introducing strings as a generalization of point particles. The former version starts with principles, whereas the latter begins with an ad-hoc idea.Smeapancol 06:44, 18 February 2006 (UTC)