Curing with hemlock: escaping the swampland using instabilities from string theory
arXiv:2103.17121 · doi:10.1142/S0218271821420293
Abstract
In this essay we will take a wonderful ride on a dark bubble with strings attached, which carries our universe out of the swampland and makes it realizable in the landscape of string theory. To find the way to the landscape, we make use of apparently hostile corners of the swampland and their instabilities.
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation