Hundreds of string theorists meet each year to discuss their research at an international conference. STRINGS 2012 takes place in Munich, and is organized jointly by LMU Munich, the Max-Planck ...

This is a strange state of affairs and one that worries many people in the field. Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists and polymaths alive eloquently states his own fears here. In short, a ...

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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, ...

For decades, physicists have been trying to combine quantum physics and general relativity into a single, unified theory. One of the leading contenders is string theory, an elegant vision in which ...