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Can anyone explain simply about string theory?


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Kind of hard to explain theories at the leading edge of theoretical Physics in simple terms, especially since we don't know what your level of understanding is.

 

I would suggest a Google search of 'Elementary String Theory'. Wiki seems to have a decent non-mathematical explanation of string and superstring theory. Give it a read and if you have any questions, come back and ask. If we can, we'll be more than happy to help.

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Kind of hard to explain theories at the leading edge of theoretical Physics in simple terms, especially since we don't know what your level of understanding is.

 

I would suggest a Google search of 'Elementary String Theory'. Wiki seems to have a decent non-mathematical explanation of string and superstring theory. Give it a read and if you have any questions, come back and ask. If we can, we'll be more than happy to help.

I think you're being far too kind to String Theory by referring to it as Leading Edge theoretical physics.

 

I mean, hell, is it really even a theory? I was under the impression it was a mere hypothesis? I don't think the requisite tenets of ST to be a theory have been met? For example, have any of it's hypothesized workings of actions been observed and proven and then bested attempt to debunking? I think maybe not.

 

Was not ST in it's heydey during the Brian Green "Elegant Universe" era about a decade or more ago? And has it not fallen a bit out of favor? And is it not outright ridiculed by some physicists? Didn't the cern discovery of the Higgs Boson a few years ago do a big to discredit ST?

 

Just saying.

 

And there's this..........

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2015/12/23/why-string-theory-is-not-science/#12fba3936524

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