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.


The Life of the Cosmos (ed. Oxford University Press, 1999) - ISBN: 9780199839360

Lee Smolin Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...