In the early 1970s Hawking, Carter, Israel, and Robinson proved the no-hair theorem, which states that all black holes are describable using three classic, externally observable parameters: charge ...

I just started the Elegant Universe which is about string/superstring theory. Now, I haven't gotten that deep in, but I've looked up some of it on Wikipedia, and according to what I can see, there has ...

The goal of elementary particle physics is to achieve a unified understanding of fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear) and elementary particlesin terms of concise and ...

We don’t know very much about our universe. We’re fairly certain it exists, but we don’t know how it got here, how long it’s been here, or how big it is. Heck, we don’t even know if our universe is ...

But despite its extraordinary popularity among some of the smartest people on the planet, string theory hasn’t been embraced by everyone–and now, nearly 30 years after it made its initial splash, some ...

Payday: Michio Kaku has lost a $2000 bet about the Nobel Prize for Physics. (Courtesy: iStock/Scorpion56) Physicists are known to have an occasional flutter – especially when it comes to the possible ...

Your editorial attack on string theory – and by implication its successor, M-theory – as going nowhere fast, cannot go unchallenged (10 December, p 5). History has shown that rapid confirmation by ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Having more tools helps; having the right tools is better. Utilizing multiple dimensions may simplify difficult problems -- not only in science fiction but also in physics -- and tie ...

Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. 'Superstring theory' is ...