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Study Questions
Essay Topics
1. What are the various obstacles facing string theorists
today? How do they hope to overcome these obstacles?
2. Why is the big bang theory, as currently postulated, incomplete?
How do string theorists hope to fix this problem and use string
theory to explain the origin of the universe?
3. Explain the importance of the word elegance to
Greene’s conception of the universe.
4. What are the shortcomings of the standard model?
What does it exclude?
5. According to string theory, how do the smallest
units of matter behave?
6. How did Einstein redefine gravity? How do string
theorists hope to incorporate it into a single Theory of Everything?
7. How are strings and point particles different? In
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