Explore the theory of everything and how Leonard Susskind defends string theory amidst challenges in modern physics. Ever since Albert Einstein wondered whether the world might have been different, ...

Susskind, a founder of string theory and author of the current bestseller “The Cosmic Landscape,” is not a huge fan of science fiction — and for good reason. “Science to me is sufficiently weird and ...

As modern physics has developed a better understanding of how the universe operates at its most fundamental levels, one thing has become increasingly clear: we're damned lucky to be here at all. The ...

Einstein introduced the cosmological constant to his equations of general relativity because he believed the universe was static. Faced with evidence that the universe was actually expanding, however, ...

The big thing that needs unifying, in everyone's view, is to tie the force of gravity in with the other fundamental forces. Galison suggested that this is more challenging than it appears, noting the ...

He probably won’t like me for saying this, but Leonard Susskind of Stanford University looks a bit like Charles Darwin. The reason I know is that Susskind – one of the father figures of string theory ...