Hidden dimension in string theory

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DualInv

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Dec 12, 2012

Hey guys,
who can tell me briefly about the 10+1 dimensions in the string theory? I am going to deliver a short presentation on string theory ,but i am not very clear about the reason that we have to introduce 11dimendion to string theory ...

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Dec 12, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory

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