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

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It's one of the most brilliant, controversial and unproven ideas in all of physics: string theory. At the heart of string theory is the thread of an idea that's run through physics for centuries, that ...