There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

String theory proposes tiny vibrating strings existing across 10 dimensions, unifying forces and particles beyond the familiar three spatial dimensions plus time. Journalists turn in access badges, ...

Could reality be made of more dimensions than those we perceive? The question has consumed some of the most brilliant physics ...

We relax the definition of a string algebra to also include infinitedimensional algebras such as 𝑘[𝑥, 𝑦]/(𝑥𝑦). Using the functorial filtration method, which goes back to Gelfand and Ponomarev, we ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Ancient light absorbed by neutral hydrogen atoms could be used to test certain predictions of string theory, say cosmologists at the University of Illinois. Making the measurements, ...