Astronomy—Editorial
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies—LPTHE, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Astronomy 2022, 1(1), 15-16; https://doi.org/10.3390/astronomy1010003
Submission received: 14 January 2022
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Accepted: 20 January 2022
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Published: 18 March 2022
Astronomy has a long history over thousands of years, since the creation of ancient civilization. It aims to describe and explain phenomena in the observable universe and its time evolution. It has now been established as an exact and precise science, with both experimental and theoretical components. It is a fascinating research field with recent breakthrough achievements (dark energy, primordial temperature fluctuations, gravitational waves, black holes, etc.) and a bright future in observations and in theories.
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Short Biography of Author
 | Ignatios Antoniadis is a CNRS research director at the ‘Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies’ of Sorbonne University. In the past, he was a senior staff member of the Theory Division of CERN in Geneva for 15 years and its Head during the last four years. Subsequently, he was a senior research staff of the Albert Einstein Center at the University of Bern for six years. He was also one of the first ERC advanced grant winners. His research has covered a vast area of theoretical physics of elementary particles and he recieved the CNRS silver medal especially for his work on string theory and its phenomenological applications. This fascinating theory, which had already appeared in the seventies, postulates that the elementary components of matter are not point particles, but rather extended objects or “strings”. Today, it offers a framework of unifying the two great discoveries from the beginning of last century, namely general relativity and quantum mechanics. The work of the team, in which Ignatios Antoniadis has played a very important role, concerns in particular the construction of theories of four-dimensional strings, and the possibility of testing them experimentally. The surprising consequences of these theories could lead to a modification in the gravitational forces over short distances, and even to the appearance of additional spatial dimensions on a microscopic scale. His works have received over 26,000 citations, and the SPIRES database listed him in the all-time list of top-cited theoretical physics authors. |
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