From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 18:59:53 MST
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<<At 31 years old, Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara is hailed as one of the
world's most promising young physicists. She recently accepted a position at
the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario
(Canada's answer to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.).
There she works alongside such prominent physicists as Robert Myers and Lee
Smolin, hoping to blend Einstein's general relativity with quantum theory to
explain the nature of space and time.
This unification is probably the single greatest challenge of modern physics.
String theory has been the predominant contender. It proposes that the
building blocks of matter are tiny, one-dimensional strings and that various
vibrations of strings play the familiar medley of particles as if they were
musical notes. >>
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