Showing posts with label String Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label String Theory. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

String Theory

What is String Theory?

String theory is a still-developing mathematical approach to theoretical physics, whose original building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings. Unlike the point particles in quantum field theories like the standard model of particle physics, strings interact in a way that is almost uniquely specified by mathematical self-consistency, forming an apparently valid quantum theory of gravity.

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