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String theory has long promised to unify all fundamental forces of nature, but for decades physicists have struggled with a devastating problem: most versions of the theory describe impossible ...

For decades, string theory occupied an extraordinarily powerful position within theoretical physics. Eric Weinstein argues ...

String theory is the idea that the building blocks of nature are made up of tiny, one-dimensional strings of energy rather than point particles. According to the theory, these strings vibrate at ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Over the past decade, string theorists have struggled to reconcile their elegant mathematical theory with the reality of our observable reality, inventing what has been ...

Michael Dine, a professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, will take part in the World Science Festival now under way in New York City, joining a panel discussion on string theory on Thursday, May 30, on ...