What is a string anyways?
From what I have read my interpretation is a string is a way we can describe the movement of a particle.
How can we describe such movement? well we can visualise the area a particle moves around / within etc like a string it seems..This interpretation suggests there is no string but we can think of the movement of a particle as string like because it scibes out a string like pattern if we can take a looong look at what it does over time....is there an actual string? or is the string the path of travel of a single particle?
To me its seems that a "string" seems to be the region of space the particle scribes out or the region it is limited to travel in space..so although we seek to presumably describe a particle ..a single point or miniscule descrete particle.. it then becomes a string it would seem.
Is a string the path a particle scibes out or do I miss something and are these little strings are the fabric of space (and time presumably)...are we not just taling about particles???
Is this correct? Can anyone help with a simple explanation of presumably a most complex matter?
Is a string not a string at all but a humans attempt to describe the movement of a single descrete particle?
My point is when we talk about a string are we only talking about one particles movement and the region its travel scribes out?
Is a vibrating string no more than our description of the path of a single particle?
alex

