String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was ...

The apparent inability of physics’ string theory to be proved right or wrong is one of the stickiest – and argument-generating – problems in modern science. But now researchers at the ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

This clear-eyed and distinctive approach helped Why String Theory? stand out in a strong shortlist of books that are all novel, well-written and scientifically interesting to physicists – the criteria ...

Although string theory has progressed along the dimensions of unifying and explanatory power, this in itself is not sufficient to believe that it gives us a true picture of the world. Hence, as it ...

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In The Trouble With Physics, Lee Smolin takes us on a journey through the history and science of physics and identifies this sociological division as the heart of the eponymous trouble: string ...

But there is more to string theory than just explaining gravity on a molecular level; string theory is, essentially, the theory of everything. It is the attempt to unite the physics of our universe.

Gross, a supporter of string theory who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the force that glues atoms together, kicked off the workshop by asserting that the problem lies not with ...

String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously ...