In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

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Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

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 ...

String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

It would also imply that our universe is in truth a hologram. In devising the duality, Maldacena was inspired by work by the late theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski of the University of ...