Recently, physicists have started a new program called Swampland to overcome the criticism of string theory that arose in the 2000s. Van Riet says, "The ultimate hope is that the Swampland program ...

Among other areas of interest, his work has explored the relationship between theories of cosmological origins and proposed "swampland conjectures" for string theory. Kinney is the author of a popular ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.