It hasn’t been tested yet and Nobel prize winners have taken opposite points of view concerning something called string theory.
I’m the co-founder of string field theory, which is one of the main branches of string theory, so I have some “skin in the game”.
String theory involves a great deal of theoretical physics, fiendish mathematics and mind-boggling abstraction.
I think the public is curious as to what the consequences of this theory could be.
The universe in some sense is like a chess game and for 2,000 years we’ve been trying to figure out how the pawns move.
And now we’re beginning to understand how the queen moves and how you get a checkmate.
The destiny of science is to become like grandmasters, to solve this puzzle that we call the universe. »