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String Theory Research Paper

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Axel Martinez
Mrs. Gallaher
English Composition
12-4-09
Strings, Strings, Everything is made of Strings
The Holy Grail of physics is to explain all the four forces of nature and matter/energy (they are both the same thing) into a single equation. This theory of everything will reveal everything about the universe, most importantly, how it began. So far the only game in town is string theory.
String theory is a purely mathematical theory that makes the bold claim that all matter and force particles are made of unimaginably tiny strings that vibrate in 10 dimensions. And the frequency which these strings vibrate determines the particle’s properties.
String theory has had a very interesting beginning, although the theory didn’t get popular …show more content…

Particle physicist reason that if we rewind the cosmic film back to the moments just after the big bang, some 14 billion years ago. When the universe was trillions of degrees hotter, the messenger particles for electromagnetism and the weak force would have been indistinguishable. Just as cubes of ice melt into water in the hot sun, experiments have shown that as we rewind the extremely hot conditions of the big bang, the weak and the electromagnetic forces would meld and unite to a single force called the electroweak.-Brian Greene.
Physicists also believed that in the initial conditions of the universe, at the very instant of the big bang. The electroweak and the strong force would unite becoming a grand unified force. Although this has yet to be proven (hopefully string theory will), quantum mechanics was able to explain how three of the forces operate on the subatomic level.
“All of the sudden, we had this consistent theory of elementary particle physics, which allows us to describe all for the interactions, being

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