A Model for Spacetime II. The Emergence of Higher Dimensions and Field Theory/Strings Dualities

Foundations of Physics 36 (12):1778-1800 (2006)
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We show that in 4-spacetime modified at very short distances due to the weakening of classical logic, the higher dimensions emerge. We analyse the case of some smooth topoi, and the case of some class of pointless topoi. The pointless topoi raise the dimensionality due to the forcing adding “string” objects and thus replacing classical points in spacetime. Turning to strings would be something fundamental and connected with set theoretical forcing. The field theory/strings dualities originate at the set theoretical level of the theories. It is argued that this fundamental level can help solving some difficulties of the physical dualities

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