Summary

  • What is the current status of string theory and its potential to elucidate the nature of our universe?
  • Why is string theory a leading candidate for a theory of everything?
  • How string theory can help to constrain the multiverse and make predictions about observable universes, and how it incorporates ideas about dark energy and dark matter.
  • How philosophical concepts influence physical theories and vice versa, and what these investigations tell us about the nature of science itself.
  • String theory attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, and it has led physicists to believe that there may be more dimensions than the three spatial ones we experience every day.

By Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz

Original Article