Is a string theory science project feasible in highschool?

[Redd]

A lot of science is knowing what is beyond your current limits. Newton freely admitted
that he couldn't explain what causes gravity, he just took it as a given and calculated the results. My point being, you don't have to solve everything all at once. Take on something that you will be able to learn well and give a solid interpretation of rather than a hasty, general, view of String Theory.
There seems to be a whole school of people out there that are interested in String Theory or QM but they just want to skip the in between and go straight to
a Nobel Prize :P

You have plenty of time. Use it.

SO basically the same as what everyone else is saying.
I vote you do something on music.

 

[MusicTheorist]

Ok, well regardless of what project I do, does anyone have any recommendations for books I can use to teach myself the math and physics? Right now I'm reading through an old version of Resnick and Halliday's Physics textbook from the 1960s (my Dad's old college textbook). He has an old Calculus book too downstairs. Are those good or too outdated?

I was also wondering if I really need to take Pre-calculus before calculus, or if I can go right to calculus. If I need to know it, can I teach myself Pre-calc and trig in parallel or will they conflict?

EDIT: I think I'll start a new thread for this since it's a little off topic...

Thanks for all the help guys!

 

[Vanadium 50]

It may help to understand how much physics separates you from a typical graduate student working on string theory.

You need to learn trig and analytic geometry (what used to be called pre-calc). Then there is the Halliday and Resnick book, which typically is covered in two one-semester college classes. At my university, it was normal for physics majors to take 8 additional physics classes and 6 math classes, so you're 18 classes behind. The first two years of grad school are 12 more, bringing you to 30. Theorists would take a couple more specialized ones, so you are about 32 college classes away from getting to where someone would start to think about strings.