Brane trust: tunneling and stringy physics

“As is often the case in science, everybody contributes their piece, forming a complete picture only after years hard work,” Amanda Weltman tells PhysOrg.com. Weltman, a scientist at the University of Cape Town and at Cambridge University, believes that she and her collaborators have found another piece of that puzzle, especially with regard to string theory. “We took a tool developed in quantum field theory and adapted it to study stringy physics.”