My impression is a string is a way of visualizing (quantifying etc) the movement of a particle which can be shown as a wave function...and in that form it is something we can work with... I dont know if that is valid but that is where I am up to Craig.
I was comptemplating the energy available at a point in space coming from a place where I would use only the smallest quanta of energy..what ever that may be...energy at a point would be probable as the number of trajectoies less a number that did not convey energy times the smallest quanta...this is my approach out of respect for maths Craig..using only the little I have to work with...anyways a goggle turned up some fella who had worked out the smallest quantum (by his system) only to go on to expound the push LeSage approach and tie it in with GR.. new theory of everything..he had the maths etc but the net has let me off pursuit of the matter because as with most things not only has it been done but done at a level one never could have reached... but I had to laugh.. the guy may be a crack pot..that is not the issue really... so its been done to death...and he has a book
http://www.rostra.dk/louis/
Does string theory treat the photon as a fundamental particle??? must check...and what is a fundamental particle really made from...the russian doll spiral of my imagination knows no bounds.
alex
