For String Theory to be correct, we have to “break” this 10 dimensional Brans-Dicke theory down to a four dimensional Einsteinian theory, which means getting rid of six dimensions and this ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

String theory, however, is one attempt to unify all the forces under a single framework. In string theory, the fundamental particles of our existence are instead seen as a collection of tiny ...

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 ...

Since the 1980s, string theory has emerged as the leading candidate for achieving every physicist’s dream: reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics and thereby finding a tidy ...

String theory not only embraces gravity but requires it. String theory also requires six or seven extra dimensions of space, and it contains ways of relating large extra dimensions to small ones. The ...

STRING THEORY ISN’T fodder for small talk. After all, the idea that matter is not made up of particles but rather vibrating “strings” has the potential to turn our understanding of the ...

Will string theory eventually make it into the history books of science rather the history books of mathematics? That's a more interesting question. It's not clear it will survive as a science.

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.