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== Holy Crap! Layman's Explanations PLEASE == |
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You cannot write an article for an encyclopaedia and expect it to resemble something out of a graduate level text-book. Come on! The detail is good for those who understand it, but you have to explain it so people who never took a quantum mechanics course (I suspect a fairly LARGE percentage of the world) can get something from it, or remove it altogether. |
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== radion <math>\neq</math> dilaton == |
== radion <math>\neq</math> dilaton == |
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Holy Crap! Layman's Explanations PLEASE
You cannot write an article for an encyclopaedia and expect it to resemble something out of a graduate level text-book. Come on! The detail is good for those who understand it, but you have to explain it so people who never took a quantum mechanics course (I suspect a fairly LARGE percentage of the world) can get something from it, or remove it altogether.
radion dilaton
The Kaluza-Klein section is incorrect. g55 describes the radion, not the dilaton. The dilaton is something else entirely. A dilaton is more like the Brans-Dicke scalar. Hep thinker (talk) 15:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- I have to admit in some cases, the dilaton can be the same as the radion in a dual theory. For instance, in heterotic string theory, the dilaton corresponds to the radion of the dual Hořava-Witten M-theory. Hep thinker (talk) 14:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC)