The Theory of Everything

We attempt to unravel one of the most ambitious and perplexing scientific theories ever proposed – string theory.

String theory promises to revolutionise our understanding of the Universe by uniting the natural laws that govern space (general relativity) with the natural laws that govern atoms (quantum mechanics). If successful, string theory will break the conceptual logjam that has frustrated the world's brightest scientists for nearly a century.

If you, like most of us mere mortals, are grappling with the theory of everything without a head for numbers, then you will have to sit back, take a deep breath and prepare to throw out everything you know about your world. Have faith, you are about to enter a realm of science fiction turned fact.

Einstein's Dream
		A deep fissure of unimaginable scale has ripped opened the fabric of physics. On one side sit inconceivably vast galaxies, on the other are impossibly small subatomic particles.
Elegant Universe
		The solution? Everything, all the planets and galaxies of the Universe right down to the atoms on Earth, is made of string. Sound strange? It is.
Welcome to the 11th Dimension
		Physicists think they are on the scent of an answer to everything – an answer that has the strangest of consequences. Are you ready to step into the 11th dimension?

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