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...heard a lot of talk about someone dying [in book seven],” said 12-year-old David A. Witten. “I’m pretty pumped...
...mathematics of the string theory, physicists believe they can avoid many of the troubling discrepancies that have dogged all other TOEs. Some scientists are already comparing the idea of superstrings with the genesis of quantum physics, or even with the revolutionary work of Albert Einstein. Says Princeton Physicist Edward Witten: "It's probably going to lead to a new understanding of what space and time really are, the most dramatic [understanding] since general relativity...
...work was ignored." In 1979 Schwarz began working with Michael Green, and by 1984 the two were able to demonstrate on paper that their string theory was free of anomalies besetting other unified theories that included gravity. That proof finally caught the attention of other physicists. Until then, says Witten, "it was still plausible that this was just a beautiful mathematical construction with nothing to do with the real world...
...Witten is optimistic that superstrings hold the key to the long-sought TOE, though he and other theorists hesitate to predict whether the remaining problems of the new theory will be solved in five years or 50. "String theory has a very rich and complicated structure that we don't understand much about," says Witten. "But enough beautiful things have been discovered that we're pretty sure we've just found the tip of the iceberg." --By Natalie Angier...
...senior enjoyed a miraculous run, advancing to the Final Fours of both tournaments. He knocked off Kentucky’s No. 3 Jesse Witten and came within two games of beating the nation’s top player, Baylor’s Benedikt Dorsch. In the semifinals of the doubles draw, Chu and freshman Ashwin Kumar came within the same margin of defeating the nation’s best...