String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

Generations of researchers have tried to create a quantum theory of gravity, and their work has produced sophisticated mathematical constructs, such as string theory. But experimental physicists haven ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call ...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new preprint suggests.

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

As a result, alternative theories have emerged—string theory, loop quantum gravity, asymptotic safety, and others—all aiming to fill this gap.

Thomas said the new results also give experimental insight into predictions made using string theory, the mathematical construct uniting the classical world of gravity with quantum physics.

Plenty of physicists have moved on from string theory to pursue other theories of quantum gravity. And the recent machine-learning developments are unlikely to bring them back.

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A University of Vermont physicist and his student wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the ...