Sentences with phrase «on string theory»

In the 1980s he did some work on string theory.

Others still are relying on string theory for unexpected help with calculations relating to particle physics and exotic states of matter.

I've read books on string theory, so then I'm a qualified expert on that?

Some theorists, myself among them, believe that the final verdict on string theory will not come from experiments at all.

In «The light that came late» (15 August, p 26) Anil Ananthaswamy cites esoteric theories based on string theory and...

«Pleased to meet the Bishop of Bedford today to discuss Bedfordshire issues of mutual concern,» he says, in case we thought they were meeting for an elaborate discussion on string theory.

In fact, Rogue, my cat is quite the authority on string theory - we were engaged in experiments this very evening.

I read up on apologists and then works by guys like Brian Greene on String Theory and the Early Universe.

No I never fancied flying an aircraft or lecturing college students on String Theory — all I wanted was to be surrounded by the freshest herbs and condiments with the wok on the fire and cooking something delicious!

People who have worked on string theory often walk away with a powerful, if unquantifiable, feeling that it smells like truth.

Sparticles would not, however, seal the deal on string theory.

I should say that when I was working on string theory as a graduate student, the general sense was that it was not a smart move, that it was a fad, that one was doing damage to one's career by working in this area.

Physicist Brian Greene was propelled into the spotlight thanks to The Elegant Universe, his bestseller on string theory.

He has been one of the field's foremost proponents and most prolific contributors, once telling an interviewer, «It was very clear that if I didn't spend my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.»

We did so in the spirit of presenting fresh ideas that are illuminating if admittedly tentative — one notable example being Scientific American's articles on string theory in its early days.

Thus Lawrence Krauss tries to address the scholastic axiom nihil ex nihilo fit («nothing can come from nothing») in his book A Universe from Nothing, where he argues, based on string theory, that a vibration in a ten - dimensional string or «brane» started it all.

Hawking and Hertog's new paper relies on string theory, a branch of physics that tries to reconcile quantum physics with gravity and Einstein's theory of relativity.

The characters have their own specialties: Sheldon's a theoretical physicist working on string theory, and Leonard's an experimentalist.

However, this is largely independent of the work on string theory (outside of the unlikely possibility that extra dimensions will be directly observed at the Large Hadron Collider).

It is based on string theory and on an even more mysterious — and just as untested — version of it called M - theory, as well as on Hawking's own cosmological thoughts.