What's inside a slab of muenster? If you go deep enough you'll discover it contains tiny loops of vibrating strings.
String theory, though exceedingly complex, basically postulates that super-microscopic vibrating strings are nature's fundamental components, which perhaps indicate parallel universes and as many as 11 dimensions.
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these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.
At the end of his illustrious career, Albert Einstein came to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton to develop a Theory of Everything, others at the institute who have taken up where Einstein left off, and they are raising new questions for science and religion:
"The institute is something of a rare zoo where you keep and nurture the kind of people who do not exist elsewhere," said Oleg Grabar, 76, an emeritus professor in the institute's school of historical studies.
… It also is home to theoretical physicists and mathematicians at the forefront of efforts that might fulfill Einstein's dream of a theory of everything, under the post-Einsteinian concept known as string theory.
Several of the world's leading string theorists - Edward Witten, Juan Maldacena and Nathan Seiberg - are institute professors.
