In the late 19th century, classical physics seemed complete. Scientists believed they had uncovered all the laws governing ...

String theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental particles aren’t points but tiny vibrating strings, whose different modes create the variety of matter and forces, including gravity ...

Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics Evidence that the universe is made of strings has been elusive for 30 years, but the theory’s mathematical insights continue to have an ...

Curiously, superstring theory, the prime candidate for the unified theory, was initially developed to solve a completely different problem. The strong nuclear force that binds quarks together inside ...

If string theory is correct, fundamental particles of nature would not be the zero-dimensional pointlike objects of standard theory. Instead, different particles would result from different modes of ...

Versions of string theory containing supersymmetric particles go by the moniker “superstring theory.” Such “superparticles” have long been suspected of comprising the universe’s dark matter.

Created by Takashi Murakami in 2015, Korin: Superstring Theory is an offset color lithograph with foil and high gloss varnish on smooth wove paper. The artwork is hand-signed by the artist and ...

The experimental discovery of supersymmetry would have been a concrete step towards superstring theory, the ‘theory of everything’ Ellis touted in his 1986 article. “String theory puts everything into ...

An approach known as superstring theory could use another dimension to help bridge Einstein's theory with quantum mechanics, solving many of these problems.

“People have opinions, after all, about supply-side economics or critical race theory,” he writes. “Why not inflationary cosmology and superstring theory?” ...