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Cosmology (THE UNIVERSE) with Katie Mack, Part I

Ologies with Alie Ward

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What Is String Theory?

The premise of string theory is that basic objects are not point-like, but they're string-like. So remember those quarks that made up protons and neutrons? What are those made of? Maybe these string-like loops of matter. Every kind of particle is like a different wiggly string. The first iterations of string cheese were bigger and chunkier and served to drunks in bars.

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