In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

It would also imply that our universe is in truth a hologram. In devising the duality, Maldacena was inspired by work by the late theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski of the University of ...

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Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

But despite its extraordinary popularity among some of the smartest people on the planet, string theory hasn’t been embraced by everyone–and now, nearly 30 years after it made its initial splash, some ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe might not be just an unexplained phenomenon — according to a new proposal by theoretical physicists, it could be a fundamental feature woven into the very ...

String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

For decades, scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers have been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes — realms that may exist beyond our own, each potentially with its own version ...