“String theory, the Italian physicist Dr. Daniele Amati once said, was a piece of 21st-century physics that had fallen by accident into the 20th century. And, so the joke went, would require 22nd-century mathematics to solve.” The New York Times surveys string theory at 20…fascinating stuff, but I still don’t get it.
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I too, love things like string theory (Greene’s books are fun reads). But, I just have to take them on their word(s). I don’t think my brain is sufficiently wired to grok physics on that level. Or several levels lower, for that matter…