Different Quote by Lee Smolin
“Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.”
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Source Lecture: String Theory Basics, Perimeter Institute, 2015
Fundamental strings can vibrate in multiple modes, each corresponding to a different elementary particle in string theory.
In simple terms: String vibrations create particles.
Explore multiple vibration patterns.
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- research seminars
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- What implications do vibration modes have for unification?
- How can we test these predictions?
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