Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S.

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

For decades, string theory has promised to be the ultimate explanation for how our universe works. In this theory, all matter ...

Polchinski, J. (1998) String Theory. Volume I, II An Introduction to the Bosonic String. Cambridge University Press.

Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics Evidence that the universe is made of strings has been elusive for 30 years, but the theory’s mathematical insights continue to have an ...

Polchinski, J. (2004) Monopoles, Duality, and String Theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 19, 145-154.

Testing String Theory Advocates say vibrating strings underlie every particle and every force in the universe. But will anyone ever be able to prove that?

String theory is an attempt to unite the two pillars of 20th century physics — quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity — with an overarching framework that can explain all ...

Polchinski, who died in 2018, told the physicist and author Sabine Hossenfelder that discovering string theory’s landscape of vacuums initially made him so miserable it led him to seek therapy.