{"id":236380,"date":"2026-05-02T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-are-the-strings-in-string-theory"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:08:11","slug":"what-are-the-strings-in-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-are-the-strings-in-string-theory","title":{"rendered":"What are the Strings in String Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6TWO-ESC6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you \ud83d\ude03). Support your local PBS Member Station here: <a href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about 23andMe head to <a href=\"https:\/\/23andme.com\/spacetime\">https:\/\/23andme.com\/spacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why strings? What are they made of? How did physicists even come up with this bizarre idea? And what\u2019s all this nonsense of extra dimensions?<\/p>\n<p>You can further support us on Patreon at \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Get your own Space Time t\u00ad-shirt at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tweet at us! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbsspacetime\">@pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-are-the-strings-in-string-theory\">Continue reading \u201cWhat are the Strings in String Theory?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you \ud83d\ude03). Support your local PBS Member Station here: https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE To learn more about 23andMe head to https:\/\/23andme.com\/spacetime. Why strings? What are they made of? How did physicists even come up with this bizarre idea? And what\u2019s all this nonsense of extra dimensions? You can further support us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}