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

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the ...

A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the first time, are taken aback by what a beautiful, powerful idea it is. When we look at our Universe and discover the way it is, we find ...

One of the leading candidates is string theory, which suggests that the universe’s most fundamental building blocks are not particles but tiny, vibrating strings.As the theory evolved, multiple ...

B y now, just about everyone has heard of string theory. Even those who don’t really understand it–which is to say, just about everyone–know that it’s the hottest thing in theoretical physics.

To understand the basic idea of M-theory, one has to go back to the 1970s when scientists realized that, rather than describing the universe based on point-like particles, you could describe it in ...

A University of Colorado Boulder physicist is one step closer to solving a string theory puzzle 20 years in the making. Paul Romatschke, an associate professor of physics at CU Boulder, has devised an ...

The problem with string theory, according to some physicists, is that it makes too many universes. It predicts not one but some 10 500 versions of spacetime, each with their own laws of physics.

The invisible string theory became popular on TikTok in 2023, but the concept has been around for years. Bronstein tells PEOPLE that it's unknown when the term was coined, but it does have ties to ...

The string theory model underlying monstrous moonshine was nothing like the particles or space-time geometry of the real world. But Cheng sensed that the new moonshine, if it was one, might be ...

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle ...

The problem with string theory, according to some physicists, is that it makes too many universes. It predicts not one but some 10 500 versions of spacetime, each with their own laws of physics.