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Evidence of Cosmic Strings Found?
space, astronomy, astrophysicsIf this "discovery" survives scrutiny, it will be the biggest scientific discovery of all time. Hands down.
Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything
Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its image has been split into two, they maintain, by a "cosmic string"; a San Andreas Fault in the very fabric of space and time.
If this interpretation is correct, then CSL-1 - the name of the curious double galaxy - is the first concrete evidence for "superstring theory": the best candidate for a "theory of everything", which attempts to encapsulate all the phenomena of nature in one neat set of equations.