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l0rca

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l0rca
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Ok, this is hard.

Currently I've become interested in the Superstring Theory.

I'm looking for any websites or helpful pointers in understanding this, as well as your opinions on the credibility of it.

It seems to me very credible, but composed of complicated parts. One essay I've read on it describes it as a symphony.

Also, a read:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=superstring theory&lastnode_id=22169

Feel free, if you can, to critique the accuracy of that node.
 
A small update. I also need to eat any information on the M-Theory...
 
I'll endorse Ryan's recommendation of The Elegant Universe. If you haven't read it, do so. Now. It covers all the important topics in string theory and M-theory, up to the point at which it was published (2000).

My copy of this book is getting very threadbare, I read it so much. I may need to get a new copy, or maybe take it to a bookbinder for hard binding like I did with Godel, Escher, Bach. :)

His next book The Fabric of the Cosmos is almost as good. You should read it as well.
 
All right.

I'm currently buying online two books, Stephen Hawking's A Briefer History of Time, and the Elegant Universe (I'm not as impulsive as this thread suggests; the former I've been pining for over a month, and a number of other sources I've looked at highly suggest the latter as well).

:)

EDIT: Awesome, Shera. It won't replace the books, but I'll certainly watch them all.
 
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The Elegent Universe is all well and good for telling err, the basic sortof idea behind String/M theory, but it's nothing more than a rehashed version of the original explanation.

Is there any source that actually, say, shows the math?
 
If you're contemplating these things, you're not dumb already.

Far from it :)
 
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