String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously ...

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String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments -- but in a completely unexpected realm of physics. The theory has long been touted as the best hope for a unified ...

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There is no getting away from it: string theory is an incredibly vast and challenging subject. With its talk of D-branes, 10- or 11-dimensional universes and a myriad of possible solutions – 10 500 at ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

It’s beautiful physics, but it probably won’t earn anyone a Nobel prize. String theory has yet to make observable predictions, and thus it cannot be experimentally tested – making it unlikely to be ...

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