
18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 10/15/2018

From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 10/15/2018
String theory is a speculative and highly technical proposal for uniting the known forces of nature, including gravity, under a single quantum-mechanical framework. This doesn't seem like a recipe for creating a lightning rod of controversy, but somehow string theory has become just that. To get to…