Hi, I am Arnab!

if you want to quantify what makes a great physicist you may enjoy reading the following article : 

A Spherical Cow Model of Physics Talent by Howard Georgi 

My broad area of research is string theory (and theoretical particle physics). String theory is an attempt to describe the world in terms of tiny vibrating strings. Research in string theory started in 1968 from the work of Gabriele Veneziano. Originally it was thought to be a candidate for the strong interaction. In the early seventies, John Schwarz and Joel Schrek showed that string theory also contains gravity and thus provides a unified description of nature. In 1982 Michael Green and John Schwarz showed that string theory could be a candidate for an ultraviolet finite theory of gravity.  Since then many important developments happened in string theory.  

You can watch three episodes of Elegant Universe by Brian Green to get a non-technical introduction to string theory (link for the first episode). You can find a short, non-technical introduction to string theory in this interview. For a more technical introduction to string theory, we recommend What every physicist should know about string theory by Edward Witten. One of the concrete features of string theory is holography; Here is a Scientific American article by one of the founders of Holography. 

 "The fact that we, humans, are smear collection of fundamental particles of nature have come close to understand the laws governing the universe is a great triumph …

so,  remember to look at the sky not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exists. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem there is always something that you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.   "

-  Stephen W Hawking 

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