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Old 19-December-2006, 05:21 PM
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Thanks Nereid and Tensor for giving some names involved in string theory. By the looks off what I read in several reviews about their publishing, I'm convinced I'm not quite ready to comment them.
Christian, Hannes Alfven is not involved in string theory. I was just using his name as a reference to show where his contributions in one area did not neccesarily carry respect in another.

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If there is no way of verifying those theories, then indeed, it's not easy to accept it as a science. I do not longer expect to read any understandable overview of string theory either. But it is still a good thing there are many efforts to keep searching.
I will give you another name. Brian Greene. His book "The Elegant Universe" should be understandable to you. It covers the starts and stops of string theory. Between that book and A Dim's link, you should have a pretty good idea, at the layman level, for string theory.
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