Bernd von Mallinckrodt 🦋
(1/2) If #StringTheory failed, it was not because the universe isn’t vibration,but because the theory restricted these vibrations to onedimensional “strings” instead of treating them as fundamental modes of the field itself. … #OntologieDerSchwingung @[email protected] đź––
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String theory doesn't stop at one-dimensional strings though. The branes are the real dynamical objects of the theory, as shown by Polchinski.

The only thing holding them back now is the old guard: pioneers in the field don't want to acknowledge category theory, homotopy, or higher gauge theory.