How to Use string theory in a Sentence

string theory

noun
  • They’ve even been used to study models in string theory and quantum physics.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Ditlevsen started out in pure physics—first string theory, then solid-state physics.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • The proof relies on ideas imported from the world of string theory.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Not only does no one understand string theory, no one wants to.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • They’re made up of field lines that wind through string theory’s extra dimensions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2026
  • If these predictions turn out to be true, that could be evidence for string theory.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But a branch of physics called string theory suggests that the universe has many more dimensions than four.
    — John Etnyre, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But the new calculations, though inspired by string theory, stand on their own, with nary a string in sight.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Does this conjecture really amount to a test of string theory?
    — Brendan Z. Foster, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • And string theory seeks an even grander prize, as an attempt at a true theory of everything.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Alas, string theory is not complete and so far has failed to provide a solvable theory of physics.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
  • The upshot is that for the universe to be ultrasoft, string theory is the only way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • So, what happens with these extra six spatial dimensions that string theory comes with?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • This, Sutter explains, is why the time was right for string theory to offer a new suggestion.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Giani, the researcher, isn’t so sure, because of some of the assumptions this model brings in from string theory.
    — Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2021
  • But a more ambitious path is to demand that string theory select out its own initial conditions.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • So far, there isn’t definite evidence of a multiverse based on string theory.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While there hasn’t been any definitive evidence in our own universe for string theory, who knows what the future may hold.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Could some observations from a faraway galaxy add up to a refutation of string theory?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2020
  • To date, there is no evidence that either string theory, inflation or the landscape is correct.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The self-healing power of the math triggered a string theory revolution.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • This focuses the debate not on the pros and cons of string theory but on the reasonableness of the assumptions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The first is to use tools from string theory, which treats the elementary particles of nature as vibrating strings.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The first is to use tools from string theory, which treats the elementary particles of nature as vibrating strings.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Then, in papers published last fall, researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
  • With this approach, if assumptions X, Y, and Z are true of our universe, then string theory is true.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • To understand string theory, imagine a rubber band, which represents a tiny, tiny electron.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The new bootstrapping work relates to the first bit of string theory to be discovered, in 1968.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Talkington watched as the lone female scientist in a panel discussion on string theory was given little to no room to speak.
    — Michael McGough, sacbee, 14 Apr. 2018
  • This unfinished task, to which string theory also aspires, is part of physicists’ quest for a theory of everything.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 1 June 2018

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