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What Is String Theory?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Make String Theory Work in Four Dimensions?

There's a lot of options after that basic concept, like how do thetoty strings e inter act? Or what do they sound like, or exactly? And the reason is that you can't make string theory work in four dimensions. In some theories, yes, they vibrate in those other dimensions, and that changes how we see them in these dimensions. So to answer that, to solve that problem, they have to roll up those other dimensions and tuck them away and make them small. They are too small axacy experience in our everyday lives,. which is why you don't see them or experience them or see them in physics experiments.

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