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"Consistent, relativistic string theories had already been written down in two, ten or twenty-six dimensions (the last being relevant only to bosonic strings) in the 1970s. A closed string is a loop which replaces a spacetime point. Its quantum oscillations correspond to particles of higher spins and higher masses, which may be arranged in a linear trajectory in a spin-versus-mass ... (Regge) plot. If the slope parameter of this trajectory — the only parameter in the theory — is adjusted to equal the Newtonian constant, one can show, quite miraculously, that in the zeroth order of the closed bosonic string there emerges from the string theory Einsteins gravity in its fullness! (The higher orders give modifications to Einsteins theory, with corrections which have a range of length = 10–33 cm.)"
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In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. On distance scales larger than the string scale, a string acts like a particle, with its mass, charge, and other properties determined by the

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