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Albert Einstein

Short History Of...

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Einstein's String Theory

Einstein spent the last decades of his life attempting to define a unified field theory. His intention is to integrate his own work with Maxwell's ideas on electromagnetism and gravity. But though he is destined not to succeed, his work later becomes a keystone of string theory. The idea that everything we see and experience in the universe is made up of vibrating subatomic strings.

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