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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Basics of String Theory
String theory is the idea that the fundamental entities are not particles, but extended higher dimensional objects. The string can have infinity-many modes depending on which kind of oscillation it's doing. Like a guitar has different harmonics, but for the string each harmonic is a particle. So when you look at tiny strings, which are shrunk to a point, they look like the particles that we think are like particles.
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