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...Greene published his first book, The Elegant Universe, for which he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The book presented the idea of string theory, a concept that is gaining more credibility among the scientific community as a potential form of the Unification theory for which Einstein searched in his later years. String theory proposes that all matter is made up of infinitesimally small strings and what they form depends on their vibration, which moves like the vibration of a violin string...
...think Einstein would have loved string theory. The thing to bear in mind is Einstein himself recognized the limitations of his own General Theory of Relativity. That’s why he was looking for something to go beyond it,” Greene says. “I think string theory, in many ways, does exactly what he was hoping. It puts together his own theory, general relativity, with this other framework that is undeniably correct: quantum mechanics...
...mathematics of string theory gives rise to the almost unfathomable possibility that the universe may have more than three spatial dimensions. After an experimentally induced collision of particles, energy may be lost to the extra eight predicted dimensions, Greene explains, emphasizing the point by smashing his fists together and transforming his fingers into the extra dimensions. This way, it may be possible to indirectly “see” these missing dimensions...
Currently, Greene is working on confirming string theory through telescoping observations of the microwave radiation left from the Big Bang. He believes strings that may have been stretched or smeared out by the expansion of the universe can be measured. Because particle accelerators aren’t powerful enough to detect strings on their own scale, these observations would serve to confirm the theory with practical technology...
...string of economic crises, political changes, technological advances and marketing breakthroughs gave way to a land with abundant supplies of high fructose corn syrup and trans fats, not to mention Taco Bells and Krispy Kremes on every corner. Catchy fast-food advertising jingles stuck in our heads while cholesterol stuck in our arteries. As physical education programs faced cuts, food was becoming cheaper, tastier and more accessible. By the 1990s, American culture read like a recipe for obesity...