# Dreams of a finite theory

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme,1997
- Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano
- Year: 1997
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3022495)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Our present understanding of fundamental interactions is based on quantum field theory and general relativity.In spite of their respective striking successes,both frameworks suffer from conceptual difficulties. I will outline how a new approach - known as string theory - appears to solve those problems and could eventually provide an unified finite theory of all interactions..

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## Lectures

1. [Dreams of a finite theory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3022495/14dd3cbd7f9f), 56 min (CERN's player)