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Louisos
10-16-06, 04:07 PM
hey guys,

im a pretty keen physics 14 yr old, mum tried to explain the string theory to me, absolute disaster can someone give it to me in Laymans terms.

baumgarten
10-16-06, 04:11 PM
Many have tried. Few have succeeded. All I have heard about string theory that I could comprehend is that after about two decades in domination of the physics community and thousands of doctoral theses, no useful predictions have been seen from it.

cato
10-16-06, 05:15 PM
don't waste your time on it, use wikipedia.com if you must know.

James R
10-16-06, 11:42 PM
A good introduction to it is Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe.

As a physicist, I'm not a big fan of string theory, mainly because it is largely untested against experiments at this stage. But, then again, I'm not an expert in that theory.