It stems from an East Asian folklore tale called the Red Thread of Fate, which says two people who are meant to be together ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical ... them – much like a silken thread appears one-dimensional ...

It stems from an East Asian folklore tale called the Red Thread of Fate, which says two people who are meant to be together are tied by an invisible string, often looped around their pinkies.