'Between the Strings' is a book for every person, professional or amateur, who has held an instrument in their hands, realizing that they are something greater for it, that the whole is truly greater ...

String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously ...

String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science.