In the early 1970s Hawking, Carter, Israel, and Robinson proved the no-hair theorem, which states that all black holes are describable using three classic, externally observable parameters: charge ...

New data from Europe's Large Hadron Collider may signal the end of one of the most popular theories in physics, superstring theory. If the conclusions are true, scientists would need a new leading ...

When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel universes – alternate realities that exist parallel to our own, but where things work or happened differently.

Dr. Brian Greene is explaining superstring theory. He is a physics professor at Columbia and wrote a best-selling book The Elegant Universe. Superstring theory could be the unifing theory that ...

We don’t know very much about our universe. We’re fairly certain it exists, but we don’t know how it got here, how long it’s been here, or how big it is. Heck, we don’t even know if our universe is ...

In human history, there have been many interesting and epic feuds – the Hatfields and McCoys, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, or the Notorious B.I.G and Tupac. Many of us love to read in tabloids or ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three ...

I just started the Elegant Universe which is about string/superstring theory. Now, I haven't gotten that deep in, but I've looked up some of it on Wikipedia, and according to what I can see, there has ...

When my psychology teacher discovered I had an interest in quantum mechanics, he advised me to read some books by Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University.