# Hope or No Hope for a String Landscape?

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Conferences & Workshops
- Speaker: Savdeep Sethi
- Year: 2019
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3017320)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Whether string theory admits a multiverse of de Sitter solutions that look approximately like our universe is a hotly debated current topic. I will overview the basics of landscape constructions and explain my view on this question. I will also outline a possible construction of de Sitter solutions..

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## Lectures

1. [Hope or No Hope for a String Landscape?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3017320/16610e7f8667), 44 min (CERN's player)