petrushka.googol Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) how can a string not be composed of anything and remain a viable entity? If strings are "strings of numbers", that would satisfy the requirement of allowing them a modus of existence, particular properties, and avenue of analysis... Strings are to modern physics what atoms were to Dalton. They exist at the Planck length (as far as i have read the concept) and are indivisible (just like atoms were in the pristine model). It is not so much a paradigm shift as a different way of looking at the same thing. Edited November 23, 2014 by petrushka.googol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 how can a string not be composed of anything and remain a viable entity? Because they are fundamental. Currently, electrons, for example, are thought to be fundamental and are not composed of anything. That is what "fundamental" means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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