Stings and webs: tying black holes to elementary particles in string theory. From: Science News | Date: August 26, 1995| Author: Peterson, Ivars | COPYRIGHT 1995 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Physicist Andrew Strominger and his colleagues have made major advances in the mathematical models used for string theory, which establishes a relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity. String theory posits that energy and matter are minute entities strung together.

To build a universe like the one we inhabit and observe requires the right sorts of energy and matter interacting in appropriate ways.

The standard model of particle physics includes such basic ingred...

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