YOU are made up not of flesh and blood, nor even atoms, but infinitesimally small vibrating strings like closed loop elastic bands. It is also probable you exist in 11 dimensions, according to cutting ...

Some physicists think there is a unit of matter more fundamental than what has been experimentally confirmed to date. They think that everything in the universe is made of tiny vibrating strands of ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...

Brian Greene likes to think he's got it all figured out. Literally. And it all boils down to string. A Columbia University physics professor, Greene is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers ...

Small vibrations: Richard Norte in his lab at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Delft University of Technology. (Courtesy: Studio Wavy for Delft University of Technology) A new “nanostring” has ...

For decades, many scientists have criticized string theory, pointing out that it does not make predictions by which it can be tested. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University; the University of ...

At Oxford, studying string theory means diving into abstract mathematics and quantum physics to explore whether reality is built from vibrating strings in hidden dimensions.