How to Use string theory in a Sentence

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• That is where the work of Dr. Gubser and others has come in, with its focus on string theory.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• They’ve even been used to study models in string theory and quantum physics.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the new calculations, though inspired by string theory, stand on their own, with nary a string in sight.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
• The good news is that string theory has no free parameters.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2018
• Giani, the researcher, isn’t so sure, because of some of the assumptions this model brings in from string theory.
  — Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2021
• This, Sutter explains, is why the time was right for string theory to offer a new suggestion.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
• All the while, Dr. Hawking was digging into exploding black holes, string theory and the birth of black holes in our galaxy.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Alas, string theory is not complete and so far has failed to provide a solvable theory of physics.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
• Not only does no one understand string theory, no one wants to.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Does this conjecture really amount to a test of string theory?
  — Brendan Z. Foster, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
• The first is to use tools from string theory, which treats the elementary particles of nature as vibrating strings.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• This, in part, has inspired me to work on string theory, which could make possible some of the imaginative space-time devices found in science fiction.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
• So, what happens with these extra six spatial dimensions that string theory comes with?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• To date, there is no evidence that either string theory, inflation or the landscape is correct.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• But even the largest machine of science, called the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic tube 17 miles long outside Geneva, is not capable of a direct test of string theory.
  — Michio Kaku, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
• But a more ambitious path is to demand that string theory select out its own initial conditions.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• Could some observations from a faraway galaxy add up to a refutation of string theory?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2020
• Mathur argued that black holes are not empty pits but packed full of strings (the fundamental units of string theory), with an actual surface like a star or planet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
• Talkington watched as the lone female scientist in a panel discussion on string theory was given little to no room to speak.
  — Michael McGough, sacbee, 14 Apr. 2018
• That attempt hasn’t seen a lot of success because nobody has been able to use string theory to develop a quantum theory of gravity—all the math just gets too complex to solve.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
• Then, in papers published last fall, researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
• This unfinished task, to which string theory also aspires, is part of physicists’ quest for a theory of everything.
  — Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• But if a dark graviton leaked into one of string theory’s tiny dimensions, its wavelength would be exceedingly short and its mass and energy very high.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• To understand string theory, imagine a rubber band, which represents a tiny, tiny electron.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• Even more disappointing for her is string theory, the most popular candidate for a unified theory of all the basic forces of nature.
  — Graham Farmelo, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• At the end of the 1970s, string theory could potentially explain all the particles and all the interactions among them and provide a quantum solution to gravity.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
• Things can vary a little bit, but typically string theory has to be formulated in 10 space-time dimensions.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• The episode opens with Sheldon getting a letter from Dr. Wolcott, a genius mathematician who believes Sheldon’s work on string theory can help him unlock the secrets of time.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2018
• In string theory, a space-time is generally assumed—the very assumption that quantum gravity aims to explain.
  — Conor Purcell, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2020
• Some of the higher-dimensional spaces now called Calabi-Yau spaces proved fundamental to string theory.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024