"Let me come finally to the question that is of more direct interest to the audience here: ‘what are the scales of string unification?’ or put more provocatively, ‘will we see strings and extra dimensions at the LHC?’ (this is also discussed in Peskin’s talk ...) The conventional (and conservative) hypothesis is that the string, compactification and Planck scales lie all to within two or three orders of magnitude from each other, and are hence far beyond direct experimental reach. The non-gravitational physics at lower energies is thus described by a 4d supersymmetric quantum field theory (SQFT), which must at least include in it the MSSM. This conventional hypothesis is supported by the following three solid facts : (i) Softly broken SQFTs can indeed be extrapolated consistently to near-Planckian energies without destabilizing the electroweak scale ; (ii) the hypothesis is (almost) automatic in the weakly-coupled heterotic string theory, and (iii) the minimal (or ‘desert’) string-unification assumption is in remarkable agreement with some of the measured low-energy parameters of our world."
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