String theory is part of the physics of the 21st century that fell by chance into the 20th.
EDWITTEN
These ideas are nonsense.
RICHARD
FEYNMAN Superstring theory is now the craze in particle physics. It proposes some outlandish ideas. Not only is the universe supposed to be built ultimately out of little loops of string, but the strings are thought to inhabit a strange world of higher dimensions.
Paul Davies , Professor of Theoretical Physics at Newcastle
University, examines the theory which may at last fulfil
Einstein's ambition to unify the laws of physics and so become a candidate for a 'theory of everything'.
With Professors Ed Witten ,
Michael Green , John Schwarz , David Gross , Steven Weinbere. Abdus Salam , Sheldon Glashow and Richard Feynman. Producer JULIAN BROWN