For nearly two decades, Figueiredo’s doctoral advisor, Nima Arkani-Hamed, has been leading a hunt for a new way of doing physics. Many physicists believe they’ve reached the end of the road when it ...

This dimple in space-time is the result of what we call a gravity well, and it was first described over 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's field equations in his theory of general relativity.

With that in mind, Monika Schleier-Smith (pictured above), a physicist at Stanford University in California, is trying to create space-time from scratch.

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new preprint suggests.