NOUN
- (particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings
How To Use string theory In A Sentence
- Physicists like the mathematical beauty of string theory because it banishes the absurdities that pop up when quantum mechanics and gravity combine.
- There is a “landscape” of many possible lower-dimensional vacua, just like in string theory. Making Extra Dimensions Disappear
- Now physicists say they have used one of the most sophisticated pieces of string theory to predict properties of the ultradense matter created in an atom smasher in Long Island, N.Y. Speedlinking 3/5/07
- String theory is a complete description of reality even though we don't understand its predictions in some extreme situations, especially those that have something to do with the ultratiny expanding universe. The Reference Frame
- Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?
- However, I am biasedly encouraged by the recent developments you have pointed out on a Twistor-string Theory that have occurred since The Road to Reality was written. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
- There still remain unproven conjectures such as the finiteness and consistency of any superstring theory, past the first three terms of a certain approximation scheme.
- In fact, determined efforts by many physicists and mathematicians over a period of more than 20 years have failed to produce a proof of the finiteness or consistency of string theory.
- Regarding these two threads: Doesn't it feel like we've been transported to the surface of some strange planet where, due to a local quirk in neuroanatomy, the inhabitants find the subjective/objective distinction to be as arcane as string theory is on Earth? Carry-Over Thread
- Some promising ideas, such as inflationary cosmology and string theory, already exist.
