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Originally Posted by static-harmony
I was watching Pbs one time and they were talking about something called string theory can anyone explain to me what this was about?
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Basically that quarks, neutrons, protons, electrons, etc are all made of things called "strings" and it is supposed to unify quantum and einstein-newtonian physics.
There's some problems with the theory though. Extra dimensions, massless particles. That sort of stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory
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