Synopsis

The second section, "String's the Thing," begins with a fanciful depiction of a movie theater where the universe’s history unfolds in reverse, winding back toward the Big Bang—the moment when general relativity and quantum mechanics first converged, and the point where our standard understanding of reality dissolves. It is string theory that offers a potential solution, as Greene recounts the progression from a long-forgotten mathematical formula of the 19th century to the initial conception