string theory
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How to use string theory in a sentence
Other models, such as string theory, propose more dimensions, but those are coiled up too small to be seen.
Maybe the rest are on a grad-school full ride getting a Ph.D. in string theory.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe entirety of string theory is the hidden reality, but we are able to experience only one of its possible configurations.
One of the embarrassments of string theory has been its inability to tell us why exactly our universe is the way it is.
I work in string theory, the field that eluded Einstein for the last 30 years of his life.
Scientific definitions for string theory
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Any of various theories in physics hypothesizing that space-time has more than four dimensions, and that some of the dimensions are exceedingly small and stringlike in shape. Elementary particles in string theory are understood as standing waves in such space-time strings, rather than as pointlike objects. String theories attempt to unify gravity with the other fundamental forces.
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Cultural definitions for string theory
In physics, a theory that views subatomic particles as string-like objects floating in space-time rather than as point-like objects. Space-time in string theory can have up to nine dimensions of space, plus the dimension of time.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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