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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

String Query: Physicists Prove to Be of Many Minds about a Unified Theory of the Universe

Is there a theory of everything? If so, is it possible to verify via experimentation? These and other questions energized a panel of physicists and their audience at this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History

NEW YORK CITY—Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything—the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics—Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Greene, one of string theory's most famous proponents. "My answer today would be the same as it was 10 years ago: No."

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