String theory is like a gigantic cosmic snowflake, except that each prong of the snowflake represents the entire set of Einstein’s equations and the Standard Model of subatomic particles.
String theory is like a gigantic cosmic snowflake, except that each prong of the snowflake represents the entire set of Einstein’s equations and the Standard Model of subatomic particles. So each prong of the snowflake represents all the particles of the universe. As we rotate the snowflake, all the particles of the universe are interchanged. Some physicists have noted that even if Einstein had never been born, and billions of dollars were never spent on smashing atoms to create the Standard Model, then all of twentieth-century physics might have been discovered if you simply possessed string theory.
