Believe it or not, physicists want to keep it simple. That’s why many scientists, including Albert Einstein, believe physics could eventually converge into a single, overarching paradigm that describes the universe—a theory of everything. Enter string theory. Very broadly speaking, string theory is a mathematical framework that replaces point-like particles with one-dimensional “strings” as the […]
Physicists Revive 150-Year-Old ‘Knot’ Theory to Explain Matter-Antimatter Mystery
For various, typically historical reasons, even the best physicists claim things that sound egregious to modern observers. That doesn’t necessarily mean these ideas are completely useless—if anything, theories once dismissed might just be what scientists need to break a stalemate in existential physics. Writing for Physical Review Letters, a team of Japanese physicists does exactly […]