Juan Maldacena (String Theory)

Juan Maldacena is an Argentine physicist who developed the idea that a duality exists between string theory and a quantum field theory — called the Malcadena duality (or the AdS/CFT correspondence; see topic 11).
The Maldacena duality, proposed in 1997, has been applied only in certain cases, but if it can be extended to all of string theory, it would allow a means to give a precise quantum string theory. In other words, string theorists
should be able to translate known principles of gauge field theory into string theory equations — an excellent starting point for a complete quantum theory of gravity. Also, applying the duality in the other direction, starting with string theory and creating predictions about how gauge theory should behave could yield predictions that are testable at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider or Large Hadron Collider in years to come.

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