string theory

>>8451073
-1/12

>>8451237
i hate this meme

>>8451257
It's literally string theory.

>>8451073
String Theory is something that's the product of the most advanced chalkboard calculations, rather than something that can be grasped as making sense to our puny mortal brains

Watch the SixtySymbols video on string theory and most of the physicists say they even don't really understand it

Strings vibrating in different ways create the different particles.
Yet it is said that strings are waaaay smaller than, say, an electron.
Fuzzy sloppy words I guess, does anyone have a better idea what's going on?

>>8451375
but what does that solve
>>8451365
theres got to be a super simple layman explanation, ive seen that video but it dosent reconcile anything for me

Its all about dynamics. Point particles interact by collisions, but with this models, new questions arise: how are properties exchange between particles? How is 1 particle different from the other? How does the particle interact with the fields in qft?

Strings kinda solve the problem by imagining that, instead of collisions, strings are merged together to form a new string, and after a while, separate to form 2 new particles.

This idea solves many of the problems mentioned above, and, within the math of ST, a spin-2 gauge boson is predicted. This new particles couples to the stress energy tensor, so it could be the graviton, thus unifying GR with QFT.

Of course, this is all theoretical and, in my opinion, this view of the universe is not correct. At least, it doesn't describe our universe.

String vibrations give the particles their properties.

>>8451073
String theory is just an autist branch of physics added so physicists can trick themselves into believing they can still innovate.
But probably mostly so they can keep getting government grants without ever worrying about showing actual physical results