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Season 2018 · Episode 36

What are the Strings in String Theory?

0.017mOctober 18, 2018

Why strings? What are they made of? How did physicists even come up with this bizarre idea? And what’s all this nonsense of extra dimensions?

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Episode 33Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
Episode 34How to Detect Extra Dimensions
Episode 35Computing a Universe Simulation
Episode 36What are the Strings in String Theory?
Episode 37Will We Ever Find Alien Life?
Episode 38Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
Episode 39Why String Theory is Right
Episode 40Supersymmetric Particle Found?
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