Proper noun
Witten (plural Wittens)
A surname.
“All this is optimistically hoping that Planet 9 does exist and turns out to be a black hole,” Dr. Witten said in an email, “and that technology develops enough that a suitable scaled version of Breakthrough Starshot is possible.” Source: Internet
Becker, Becker, and Schwarz 2007, p. 296 Initially, some physicists suggested that the new theory was a fundamental theory of membranes, but Witten was skeptical of the role of membranes in the theory. Source: Internet
At 38, Witten isn’t done playing just yet, and took his talents to Vegas and their flashy new Allegiant Stadium. Source: Internet
Duncan, Griffin, and Ono 2015 Witten has also speculated that the version of string theory appearing in monstrous moonshine might be related to a certain simplified model of gravity in three spacetime dimensions. Source: Internet
Hořava and Witten 1996a Hořava and Witten 1996b Witten and Hořava studied M-theory on a special spacetime geometry with two ten-dimensional boundary components. Source: Internet
Duff 1998, p. 66 Speaking at a string theory conference in 1995, Edward Witten made the surprising suggestion that all five superstring theories were in fact just different limiting cases of a single theory in eleven spacetime dimensions. Source: Internet