Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

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"On one side," says Jan Zaanen, "you have this refined, almost other-worldly intellectual — the perfectionist obsessed with detail, barely interested in earthly pleasures. On the other, you have the ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). String theory was devised as a way to unite the laws of quantum mechanics with those of gravity, with the goal of creating the vaunted “theory of ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article ...

There’s a mystery lying at the heart of physics. Two long-held theories—general relativity and the standard model of particle physics—do an incredible job at explaining the universal and the subatomic ...