Cosmic Strings

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Can you give me some good links and/or books about the physical properties of cosmic strings? I can't find much about them.

 

[CurtC]

The Elegant Universe is a good introduction to the subject. However, after reading it, I'm even less hopeful than I was before, that anything will ever come of String Theory.

 

[Donks]

I dug through arxiv some and found this book online:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503203
Click on pdf. Go to page 145.

 

[c4ts]

Discover magazine had an article on testing string theory a couple months ago. Also, if you have the Science Channel, they'll rerun a show on string/brane theory every few weeks, and they all happen to include that MIT guy who seems to be on every Science channel show (I think he's their mascot or something).

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Can you give me some good links and/or books about the physical properties of cosmic strings? I can't find much about them.

Sorry guys, the qustion was about cosmic strings specifically not string theory in general.

But, also, sorry SkepticJ, have you eally not put "cosmic strings" into Google. It gives loads of good hits immediately, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_string

"Cosmic strings, if they exist, would be extremely thin with diameters on the same order as a proton. They would have immense density, however, and so would represent significant gravitational sources. A cosmic string 1.6 kilometers in length would exert more gravity than the Earth"

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Re: Re: Cosmic Strings

But, also, sorry SkepticJ, have you eally not put "cosmic strings" into Google. It gives loads of good hits immediately, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_string

"Cosmic strings, if they exist, would be extremely thin with diameters on the same order as a proton. They would have immense density, however, and so would represent significant gravitational sources. A cosmic string 1.6 kilometers in length would exert more gravity than the Earth"

Huh, weird that I didn't find anything. Thanks guy.

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Also, if you have the Science Channel, they'll rerun a show on string/brane theory every few weeks, and they all happen to include that MIT guy who seems to be on every Science channel show (I think he's their mascot or something).

That'd be Dr. Michio Kaku . He even has his own forum at the Physics Forums. I want my own forum dammit!