Ed Witten & M-Theory: Physics I Project Ideas

[catherineM]

I must write an essay with a visual representation (like a model, etc.) for my high school physics class (I'm only in Physics I, forgive me for my ignorance). My essay is on Ed Witten and his M-Theory. However, I'm stuck on the visual part. Does anybody have any ideas? I'd rather not do a poster.

 

[Kevin_Axion]

I'll repost, this will likely get moved again to Physics homework.

You can put a ridiculously long equation down! Or you can make a Calabi-Yau manifold but this would be extremely difficult (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Calabi_yau.jpg).

Here's an equation:

$$S=-\frac{T}{2}\int\sqrt{-h}h^{ab}g_{\mu\nu}(X)\partial_aX^\mu(\sigma)\partial_bX^\nu(\sigma)$$

It's called the Polyakov Action and is a very important component of Superstring Theory and M-Theory.