Well as to "what are the strings made of?" they are made of pure energy I believe and as to "why strings?" that's just the fundamental object that came out of the equations when string theory was born.
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Im going to be moving to the us soon so could someone please tell me the us education system right from school e.g about the sats what gpa is etc. Any help is appreciated.
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Srijan
We can find new particles that can sometimes answer questions or at Cern they contain antimatter particles which are used in PET scanners. There are probably many uses I think they are just not obvious ones.
So the situation in the us is pretty hectic for a theoretical phycisist,i would certainly like to work in that field, so poolwin are you saying the situation is better in the uk?
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"Modern physics involves the two important 20th century theories : Quantum mechanics and Relativity"
In a sense relativistic mechanics is a classical theory as it does not include the uncertainty relations.
When a black hole "evaporates" there isn't an explosion. I don't know what string theory predicts about loss of info through a black hole but something that i came across was that you can think there are virtual particle pairs near the event horizon of a black hole and so normally these virtual...