Caution: He'll warp your branes. Dr. Brian Greene isn’t just a mildly popular scientist. Greene, renowned proponent of quantum string theory and parallel universes, has fanboys and fangirls like he’s ...

pt. 1. edge of knowledge -- ch. 1. Tied up with string -- pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- ch. 3. Of warps and ripples -- ch. 4.

The idea that the universe is made of tiny vibrating strings was once the science theory du jour. String theory promised to unite the disparate theories describing particles and gravity, and many ...