Timaeus in Metaphysics

When I teach Timaeus in metaphysics, there's a part and I can't cite your chapter in verse, but he basically says, what's important in this sort of discussion is creating some kind of a plausible story. And so you already know he thinks of story components. But then I compare our modern astrophysics, right? And certain ideas like their string theory, right? Or there's 11 dimensional strings that are rooted in a B-R-A-N-E, whatever that means. You hear some of these stories and you're like, I don't know what that even means. It's like, it sounds sci-fi, but you know it's science,