[Profpat]

Originally Posted by dipayankar

Thats what I am breaking my tiny brains on. What substance would a string be made of? Could that substance be broken down into still more fundamental substances???

Hi Dipayankar;

As Felix pointed out strings are the basic constituent of matter. It can't be made up of anything else, or it would no longer be the basic building block.

Lets say it's the basic massive unit made up of pure energy. The electron is considered to be a string with an assigned mass of 1, therefore the energy in a string or an electron would be 1XCsquared. a lot of energy for a one dimensional Planck length entity.

This is that beginning point where Mass and energy are the same. Remember our chat discussion as to which came first Mass or Energy? This theory would state both came the same. Energy compacted into the smallest massive form a one dimensional Planck length entity.

Best,

Pat