Bartosz Milewski on Nostr: I have a new understanding of string theory. An elementary particle is something that ...

I have a new understanding of string theory. An elementary particle is something that cannot be decomposed. But it seems like a string should be decomposable. It's a string of points, so its behavior should be derivable from the behavior and interaction between those points. String theory is our first primitive attempt at describing the non-decomposable. It failed because the only tool at our disposal is math, which is the science of decomposition.