[Profpat]

Originally Posted by dipayankar

Prof, where did strings come from?

Well being a Theist, I'm tempted to say from God. That of course wouldn't be a satifactory explanation for agnostics or atheist. If there is no God, ( which there is ), than something else must be eternal, and that something would be strings. Again this really fits a cyclic universe model of expansion and contraction. String theory states you can't compress smaller than a string before the expansion starts again. Otherwise we're back to the something from nothing paradox, which in my mind would be excellent evidence in God.

Best,

Pat