Stringscape
Sep 3, 2007
In its near 40-year history, string theory has gone from a theory of hadrons to a theory of everything to,
possibly, a theory of nothing. Indeed, modern string theory is not even a theory of strings but one of
higher-dimensional objects called branes. Matthew Chalmers attempts to disentangle the immense
theoretical framework that is string theory, and reveals a world of mind-bending ideas, tangible successes
and daunting challenges – most of which, perhaps surprisingly, are rooted in experimental data.
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