Article: SUPERSTRINGS; Jim Gates and the Quest For Ultimate Reality

Jim Gates is what his fellow physicists call an "existence proof." The fact that he exists -- an African American man of modest origins doing cutting-edge research in what may be the most complex field of modern science -- proves that it can be done.

Sylvester James Gates Jr., is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland at College Park where he teaches and does research aimed at answering the question that Albert Einstein failed to answer after devoting the last 40 years of his life to it. The question is how to reconcile apparent contradictions between the two greatest discoveries of 20th century physics -- Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

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