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String theory may provide the best clues yet about how to obtain a unified theory that describes all the laws of nature, but do we even understand what string theory is?

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   Edward Witten

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Witten, E. Unravelling string theory.Nature 438, 1085 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4381085a

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• Published: 21 December 2005
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