Single Idea 19953

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / b. String theory]

Full Idea

String theory suggests that space-time has a grainy substructure - you can't keep chopping it indefinitely into smaller and smaller pieces.

Gist of Idea

In string theory space-time has a grainy indivisible substructure

Source

New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2015.11.07)

Book Reference

-: 'New Scientist magazine' [ 2013], p.32


A Reaction

Presumably the proposal is that strings are the true 'atoms'.