I tied my coffee cup to a string that was about 3 feet long. On the other end of the string, I tied some washers. Most people think the coffee cup will fall to the ground and break. However, when I ...

Could some observations from a faraway galaxy add up to a refutation of string theory? Researchers who study data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory think so. It’s difficult to prove something’s absence ...

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, ...

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The latest news in the particle physics media is that string theory is in trouble. That might not mean much to you if you don’t know what string theory is. Suppose all forces between fundamental ...

Researchers have planned how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory. String theory was originally developed to describe the fundamental particles and forces that make up our ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...

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