String Theory & Particle-Wave Duality: Can Oscillating Strings Explain?

[Olly_price]

I'm not sure if this question is something that has been asked before or if i thought about it myself or if it's completely ridiculous!

But I was thinking, if, according to String Theory, particles are 1-dimensional strings that go through modes of oscillation, could they describe how a particle can also behave like a wave?

 

[Dali]

No. String theory builds upon quantum mechanics. It does not explain any quantum weirdness. The particle-wave duality etc remains regardless if one views elementary particles as point-like or very small strings.

Wave-properties of particles also takes place on a completely different scale than strings. For example, if a particle has two different possible paths from a source to a detector, one can see interference between those two paths no matter how far separated the paths are.