Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

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A team of physicists have proposed a new idea for uniting quantum mechanics and gravity, which they believe could explain the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable progress in establishing rigorous mathematical frameworks for quantum field theory (QFT), conformal field theory (CFT), quantum gravity and string theory.

--- Davide De Biasio received his PhD in theoretical physics from the Max Planck Institute for Physics, where he studied black holes, string theory and the enigmas of quantum space-time. Today, he ...

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