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Recent Examples on the Web So either quantum physics will absorb relativity or relativity will absorb quantum — no one thinks that’s going to happen — or there’s a third theory that will then encompass them both: string theory or something else. — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, "Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Science Can Reign Supreme Again," 17 Apr. 2021 There are strong theoretical ideas and a lot of beautiful mathematics in favor of string theory. — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, "Of Miracles and Multiverses," 22 Mar. 2021 Because string theory requires a multiverse, string theorists tend to regard the cosmological constant problem as essentially solved by this reasoning. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, "The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem," 1 Feb. 2021 Loeb points out that many of the most fashionable research topics in physics — other than supersymmetry, ideas like extra-spatial dimensions, string theory, multiverses — lack much experimental backing. — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, "Aliens must be out there," 12 Feb. 2021 This, Sutter explains, is why the time was right for string theory to offer a new suggestion. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, "Black Holes May Not Be Black Holes at All. They May Actually Be Fuzzballs.," 7 Dec. 2020 Furthermore, combining quantum information science with string theory may help not just in deriving a theory of quantum gravity but in evaluating whatever theory the researchers find. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, "Tangled Up in Spacetime," 26 Oct. 2016 Then, in papers published last fall, researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether. — Quanta Magazine, "The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears its End," 29 Oct. 2020 One of the most successful embodiments of the holographic principle is a discovery known as the AdS/CFT correspondence, found by Maldacena in 1997 within the framework of string theory. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, "Tangled Up in Spacetime," 26 Oct. 2016

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