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1.1 What is Fundamental?
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Seppo Koivula
It is often said that quarks are ultimately strings, but would that fit to electrons too? Are electrons also strings according string theory?
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Robert Ruxandrescu
Yes, every fundamental particle is a string. The difference is the mode of vibration. So an upquark would vibrate differently than an electron.
Gopinath Mavankal
Ten to the power minus 30 cms a point particle appears as a vibrating string.
Strings can join or split.
1. Is the string in itself reducible to energy or a non-particulate-ness? 2. Does it change E = mc2 ? 3. If Energy and mass are equivalent - can a string be cooled down to zero energy that it has no vibration and is the thing in itself then still energy?
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