For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply related to one another. The forces are linked by so-called dualities: the ...

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 ...

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And so we don't have any possible experiments on the horizon that could tell one theory from the other theory. And since the particle view of physics has been tested by experiment and is accepted, the ...

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. But ...

Dr. Sam D. Toney has launched RevelationEquation.com to present Revelation Equation, a science fiction novel that incorporates established principles from physics to examine the relationship between ...

“Not even wrong” was Wolfgang Pauli’s ultimate put-down for any theory he considered wide of the mark. Here it is adopted by Peter Woit – a mathematician at Columbia University – and aimed at the ...

In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June, a team of string theorists published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fundamentally incompatible ...

String theory proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional “strings” rather than point-like particles. What we perceive as particles are actually vibrations in loops ...