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Possibly naive question. Wikipedia describes string theory as follows:
The obvious next step (since string theory hasn't succeeded in describing our universe) would be to define elementary particles as 2D surfaces or 3D volumes or 4D space-time volumes, which may have vibrational modes similar to the 1D strings. Is anyone working on such a theory? Has any progress been made? What is the name of such a theory if it exists?String theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings.