Thursday, December 09, 2004

20 years of string theory...

an example graph from string theory...and scientists are still perplexed by it. String theory keeps offering seeming new ways to analyze different aspects of physics and cosmology, but its predictions are difficult if not impossible to prove (or disprove). Something about the elegance of the mathematics keeps drawing new researchers to it, and yet the controversy rages on -- is it a theory of everything, or just a black hole for good minds?

(via Follow Me Here)

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