Can somebody please explain.....

[Lludmila]

.....the String Theory to me. In very little words?
Mind you, I am a high-school non-graduate, and while I have a great interest in science, art is my passion and history is my field of expertise

 

[redmartian89]

hi lludmila,
I'm not an expert in this field, but I can tell that string theory states that all matter and energy in the universe is made of strings. You can tell the properties by the vibrations of these strings. Some of the strings are wrapped into membranes that act as mini-wormholes to other universes. Brian Greene is the main guy behind this theory. Hope that helps.
Michael

 

[arunma]

Just to demonstrate how esoteric this field of study is, I have a physics degree and am going to be a graduate student in physics this fall, and I've never learned a thing about string theory except for what I've seen in documentaries. I've talked to other physics graduate students, and they don't know anything about string theory either. Heck, I've never even seen my physics professors talk about string theory. At the moment, string theory is highly theoretical and thus has no experimental verification; it's also studied by relatively few physicists, so most of us don't really know anything about it.

So I couldn't tell you anything about string theory beyond what you've already heard from popular sources. But maybe I'll read a couple papers on the subject and get back to you.

 

[childofgod89]

i suggest watching NOVA's episodes on string theory. here're the link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

if you dont have quicktime or realvideo, i belive they're also uploaded onto youtube, but in lower quality.

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

hope those help. if you become really interested, also check out Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe

 

[constantlybewildered]

I suggest http://seedmagazine.com/news/2007/04/cribsheet_9_string_theory.php as a succinct resource guide for this topic.

 

[billwald]

No. Chances are no one can explain it to you. The scientists can't explain it to each other.