Long touted as a theory of everything, it seems that string theory may at last succeed as a theory of something very specific — the interactions of particles under the strong nuclear force.
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Nicolai, H. Back to basics. Nature 449, 797–798 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449797a
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