String compactification refers to the process of reducing the ten or eleven dimensions intrinsic to string or M-theory down to the four dimensions of observable spacetime by assuming that the extra ...
String theory and its extensions propose that the elementary constituents of matter are not point particles but one-dimensional strings whose vibrational modes manifest as observed particles and ...
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 ...