This suggests that string theory may indeed be an inevitable description of the universe, even as direct experimental verification remains out of reach. “A bootstrap is a mathematical construction in ...

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The Many-Worlds Interpretation Proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum ...

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