Eleven dimensions, parallel universes and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's String Theory.You can watch The Elegant Universe three-hour miniseries in bite-size chunks at Nova science on PBS. Or you can buy Brian Greene's book.
Also known as superstring theory, the startling idea proposes that the fundamental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strings of energy, whose different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. The theory successfully unites the laws of the large—general relativity—and the laws of the small—quantum mechanics—breaking a conceptual logjam that has frustrated the world's smartest scientists for nearly a century.
You might even do both.
