The Universe, Woven in Strings
by Dhrubo Neel
People yearn to understand the universe's greatest mysteries. Here's the conundrum, though: mysteries don't exist in the cosmos itself. It doesn't want to come out as mysterious or dramatic. That's just the way things are: what exists, exists; what doesn't, doesn't. There is another (perhaps several) dimension between existence and non-existence that is closed off and uncharted. The gray door between light and darkness is now being peered at by modern science. The U.S. Department of Energy's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) may have recently found a key to that door. It made a novel observation in April: the first compelling observational evidence for string theory, which holds that the entire cosmos is composed of microscopic vibrating strings.
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