2004/07/20 by M. J. Duff, Duff, M. J. · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0407175
Asim Barut Memorial Lecture, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October 2002. Added references
openalex publication_date 2004/07/20 · arxiv created 2005/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Branes now occupy center stage in theoretical physics as microscopic components of M-theory, as the higher-dimensional progenitors of black holes and as entire universes in their own right. Their history has been a checkered one, however. Here we list some of the milestones, starting with Dirac's 1962 paper. Asim Barut was an early pioneer.