The discovery of superconductivity - the property of certain conductors to display zero DC electrical resistance - by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and co-workers in 1911 illustrates the point. It was a...
It is important for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that it changed the fundamental way that we understood two very basic ideas: time and distance. These lie and the basis of all of our...
The theory of extra dimensions, infinite universes, the theory where the Big Bang occurred when a membrane of a different dimension crashed into our membrane, gravitons, the theory that gravity seems...
Yes, so far it is- string theory explains many of the unresolved fundamental problems of our century, such as the opposition between Quantum Mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity.
A scientific theory has a different definition from a "general" theory of everyday use. "Regular" theory (according to dictionary.com): contemplation or speculation.guess or conjecture. Scientific...