Second Superstring Revolution
Second Superstring Revolution is a short-hand for the intense wave of breakthroughs in string theory that took place approximately between 1994 and 1997. The different versions of superstring theory have been unified at last by new equivalences known as S-duality, T-duality, U-duality, mirror symmetry, and conifold transitions, and have also been connected to a new 11-dimensional theory called M-theory. New objects called branes were discovered as inevitable ingredients of string theory, and their analysis - especially the analysis of a special type of branes called D-branes - has led to the AdS/CFT correspondence, the microscopic understanding of the thermodynamic properties of black holes, and many other developments.
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