So we’re in a situation where we strongly suspect that there should be cosmic strings riddled throughout the Universe. And yet decades of direct and indirect se

So we’re in a situation where we strongly suspect that there should be cosmic strings riddled throughout the Universe. And yet decades of direct and indirect searches haven’t found any. At all. We’re left with two conclusions. Either our understanding of the physics of the early Universe is way off base and cosmic strings aren’t nearly as generic as we think they are, or we’re not understanding how cosmic strings manifest themselves in the modern-day cosmos and our observations are missing something. I think it's safe to say our understanding of the physics of the early Universe is way off base, and by early, I mean a few seconds old. We're going to have to unify GR and QM before we have a shot at understanding the physics of the early Universe.