For decades, most physicists have agreed that string theory is the missing link between Einstein’s theory of general relativity, describing the laws of nature at the largest scale, and quantum mechanics, describing them at the smallest scale. However, an international collaboration headed by Radboud physicists has now provided compelling evidence that string theory is not the only theory that could form…
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Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
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It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. It fell out of favor for decades, but a new series of studies has shown how the theory can work… Their very blackness makes it hard to estimate how many black holes inhabit the cosmos and how…
Chandra data tests ‘theory of everything’
One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String theory is arguably the best-known proposal for a “theory of everything” that would tie together our understanding of the physical universe. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-chandra-theory.html…
The universe could possibly have more dimensions. Here’s how.
String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. Source: https://www.livescience.com/more-universe-dimensions-for-string-theory.html
Why Has String Theory Persisted?
String theory is a powerful idea, unfinished and untested, but one that has persisted for decades despite inauspicious beginnings. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-has-string-theory-persisted.html
‘Why the Foundations of Physics Have Not Progressed For 40 Years’
Sabine Hossenfelder, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, writes: What we have here in the foundation of physics is a plain failure of the scientific method. All these wrong predictions should have taught physicists that just because they can write down equations for something does not mean this math is a scientifically promising hypothesis. String theory, supersymmetry, multiverses….