Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

String theory aims to explain all fundamental forces and particles in the universe—essentially, how the world operates on the smallest scales. Though it has not yet been experimentally verified, work ...

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String theory strutted onto the scene some 30 years ago as perfection itself, a promise of elegant simplicity that would solve knotty problems in fundamental physics—including the notoriously ...

A provocative branch of physics called string theory might explain everything in the universe, such as how matter came into being and why space... Short of 'All,' String Theorists Accused of Nothing A ...

Steve Giddings is a University of California, Santa Barbara string theorist. A provocative branch of physics called string theory might explain everything in the universe, such as how matter came into ...

A provocative branch of physics called string theory might explain everything in the universe, such as how matter came into being and why space... A provocative branch of physics called string theory ...