What Physics and Math Should You Study for M-Theory and the Multiverse?

[dmehling]

I have a rudimentary background in physics and would like to do self-study for my own intellectual curiosity. If I wanted to try to get a grasp of something like M-Theory or inflationary cosmology, what physics subjects would I need to study first? Also what kinds of mathematics would I need to study? I am most interested in the topic of the multiverse, and the related issue of what mathematical models can tell us about the universe(s).

 

[artfullounger]

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index.html

Everything listed here, would be a start.

You'd realistically need a minimum of a bachelors or equivalent in physics I think, for M-theory at least, with a good smattering of upper level maths.