What is the distance between strings and how are they spread across space?

[mrjonesgl]

Hi,
I would like to know what is the distance between strings (or average distance) ?
and also in what manner are the strings spread across space? are they spread evenly ? can i find the exact amount of strings in any given location?

thanks

 

[Kevin_Axion]

By strings do you mean cosmic strings?

 

[mugaliens]

The term "string" as in string theory doesn't refer to a 1-dimension string, but instead, the appearance of unidimensionality at a distance, but where multi-dimensionality may exist upon closer inspection. Indeed, one axiom is that we simply cannot observe a string's compactification of extra dimensions using current technology, else we would have found them already, and since we haven't...

 

[mrjonesgl]

Sorry i wasn't clear about this, by strings i do mean cosmic strings.

i would think that strings would have a representation in our large 4 dimensional universe.

isn't there a theory of how far apart (or close) is one string to the next? isn't it something like Planck's constant or something in the order of Planck's constant?

thanks

 

[Kevin_Axion]

You're thinking of brane-world scenarios, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology.

 

[mrjonesgl]

I guess the answer i was looking for was Planck Length since it's the closest physical distance allowed between any two particles, right?