In Chinese mythology, the invisible string theory is known as the red thread of fate. There are novels based on it, and some believe that a red thread represents true love, family, and human ...

String theory has its supporters and its gainsayers among theoretical physicists. Even advocates admit that the theory could be entirely wrong (though naturally they don't think it is).

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.