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

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.

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Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics, is the author of “The Elegant Universe” and “Until the End of ...

Offering scholars and enthusiasts unprecedented access to the works of one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the UC Santa Barbara Library has ...

Scientists seeking the secrets of the universe would like to make a model that shows how all of nature’s forces and particles fit together. It would be nice to do it with Legos. But perhaps a better ...

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--- 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 ...

An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the “glue” that holds the universe together — the strong nuclear force. “One of the fundamental ...