{"id":95718,"date":"2019-09-02T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/m-theory-the-theory-formerly-known-as-strings"},"modified":"2019-09-02T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:43:34","slug":"m-theory-the-theory-formerly-known-as-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/m-theory-the-theory-formerly-known-as-strings","title":{"rendered":"M-Theory (the Theory Formerly Known as Strings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superunification underwent a major paradigm shift in 1984 when eleven-dimensional supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings. This last year has witnessed a new shift of equal proportions:<\/p>\n<p>Perturbative ten-dimensional superstrings have in their turn been superseded by.<\/p>\n<p>A new non-perturbative theory called {\\it $M$-theory}, which describes supermembranes and superfivebranes, which subsumes all five consistent string theories and whose low energy limit is, ironically, eleven-dimensional supergravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superunification underwent a major paradigm shift in 1984 when eleven-dimensional supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings. This last year has witnessed a new shift of equal proportions: Perturbative ten-dimensional superstrings have in their turn been superseded by. A new non-perturbative theory called {\\it $M$-theory}, which describes supermembranes and superfivebranes, which subsumes all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}