Fit to be tied: impatience with string theory boils over.

From: Science News | Date: October 21, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Jazz musician Ken Hatfield entitled his compact disc released in June String Theory. A quilt-maker, Denyse Schmidt, offers quilts with the same title in two color schemes. Elizabeth Dewberry's novel His Lovely Wife (2006, Harcourt), about a woman married to a Nobel laureate physicist, "uses string theory to weave together two women's lives," the publisher's note says. The abstruse theory asserting that infinitesimal strings of energy make up the most fundamental constituents of the universe is flourishing as an icon of scientific brilliance.

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