Sandra pageoti has the question. Can you please explain it in a simple way, or write a string theory book for dummies? Well, so a great book on this, which was a big best sellar was from my friend and colleague, brian green. Wrote a book called the elegant universe. And there's a lot of other stuff in there, but he's a streng theorist, and so strength theory deeply infuses his writings. So what i can do is tell you that we have quantum physicsright? That's the theory of the small so that gives us an understanding of molecules and atoms and particles. And then we have einstein's general theory of relativity,
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