For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny "string" could provide the ...

String theory aims to explain all fundamental forces and particles in the universe—essentially, how the world operates on the ...

The equations of string theory could give rise to elementary particles like those currently known (electrons, quarks, photons, etc.), but because detailed numerical predictions cannot yet be made ...

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles and forces.

String theory proclaims otherwise. According to string theory, if we could examine these particles with even greater precision—a precision many orders of magnitude beyond our present ...