Like an infinitely thin rubber band, each particle contains a vibrating, oscillating, dancing filament that physicists have named a string. In the figure at right, we illustrate this essential ...

This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core If a point particle couples to the Maxwell field then that particle carries electric charge. Strings couple ...

Later on this primitive string theory that existed in the 1970s became combined with the theory of supersymmetry—which is another development in particle physics, a very interesting development ...

The tiny vibrating strings are tasked with the monumental effort of explaining all of creation—every kind of particle to ever ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

String theory has not yet made any experimentally verified predictions about our physical world that go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity. Speculative scientific ...

At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just found ...

Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms.

Chalk Circle cofounder Megan Carmitchel co-stars in the production with San Diego newcomer Nick Apostolina, who made his ...