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The application and nomination of Professor Georgi Dvali was partially the combined effort with the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. Georgi Dvali is known to be an extremely creative and inventive theoretical physicist. Thanks to his prizewinning work, Dvali has opened up new directions in research at the boundary between elementary particle physics and cosmology of the early universe shortly after the Big Bang. In particular, it was he and two other colleagues who were the first to recognize in 1988 that a universe with more than three spatial dimensions can solve some of the most puzzling problems in elementary particle physics. This suggestion created an enormous interest in the so-called higher dimensional theories, in which our universe represents a three-dimensional membrane that is embedded in a higher-dimensional world. Dvali and his colleagues demonstrated that this idea of a higher-dimensional world is not just an esoteric invention of a handful of theoretical physicists. The theories involving more than three dimensions may be set to be proven in just a few years using the LHC in Geneva, which went online in September. One very characteristic sign of a higher-dimensional membrane theory is namely the creation of mini black holes in the LHC, which will of course disintegrate almost as soon as they are created, and are therefore no threat at all to the earth or mankind. Furthermore, in a world with more than three dimensions, the rapid expansion of the universe shortly after the big bang the inflationary universe can be explained very well by the energy of membranes, so-called D-branes. These and many other works and
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