Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these … - Lee Smolin

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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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