Witten
Proper noun
Meaning
Witten (plural Wittens)
A surname.
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“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.”
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.
At 38, Witten isn’t done playing just yet, and took his talents to Vegas and their flashy new Allegiant Stadium.
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.
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.
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.