All You Are Is A Bag Of

The Central Idea Of String Theory Is Quite Straightforward. If You Examine Any Piece Of Matter Ever More Finely, At First You'll Find Molecules, Atoms, Sub-atomic Particles. Probe The Smaller Particles, You'll Find Something Else, A Tiny Vibrating Filament Of Energy, A Little Tiny Vibrating String.

In Any Finite Region Of Space, Matter Can Only Arrange Itself In A Finite Number Of Configurations, Just As A Deck Of Cards Can Be Arranged In Only Finitely Many Different Orders. If You Shuffle The Deck Infinitely Many Times, The Card Orderings Must Necessarily Repeat.

We Do Not Know Whether There Are Extra Dimensions Or Multiverse. Let's Go Forward With The Possible Ideas That Come Out Of The Mathematics. It's Hard For Us To Imagine A Universe That Would Have No Time At All.

Quantum Mechanics Is Different. Its Weirdness Is Evident Without Comparison. It Is Harder To Train Your Mind To Have Quantum Mechanical Tuition, Because Quantum Mechanics Shatters Our Own Personal, Individual Conception Of Reality

Black Holes Provide Theoreticians With An Important Theoretical Laboratory To Test Ideas. Conditions Within A Black Hole Are So Extreme, That By Analyzing Aspects Of Black Holes We See Space And Time In An Exotic Environment, One That Has Shed Important, And Sometimes Perplexing, New Light On Their Fundamental Nature.