Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin. Eight decades have passed since physicists realized that the theories of quantum ...

If the universe was a soundtrack, we have been humming it our whole life. Every atom in our body, every star in the sky, every beam of light is part of a piece of music that never stops playing.

String theorists state that electrons, photons, protons, and all other particles are not zero-dimensional point-like objects (which form the basis of the Standard Model) but rather tiny ...