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'There's no real competitor': Theoretical physicist Marika Taylor on how black holes could help us to find a theory of everything

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String theory is a theory that unifies all the forces of nature and would allow us to describe the force of gravity.

Marika Taylor is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Her research focuses on using string theory and black hole observations to build a theory of quantum gravity.

Most of the universe is well described by string theory, she says.

In the coming decades , we'll get more and more information about black holes colliding with each other.

The collision between two black holes that was observed by the LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ] released three times the whole energy of the sun.

Part of your research is in looking at how black holes behave like quantum computers.

String theory is a collection of ideas of fundamental physics.

It's very unlikely that there'd be a smoking gun saying that all of it was wrong.

But as for alternate theories of quantum gravity, there's no real competitor.

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