physics

The universe is a string-net liquid

What if electrons were not elementary, but were formed at the ends of long strings of other, fundamental particles? ... This led Wen and Levin to the idea that there may be a different way of thinking about matter. What if electrons were not really elementary, but were formed at the ends of long "strings" of other, fundamental particles? They formulated a model in which such strings are free to move "like noodles in a soup" and weave together into huge "string-nets".
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