Years later, after untold exaflops of computing, the AI’s answer appears on the screen: “Dunno”.

What makes up the strings?

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“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk” – John von Neumann.

String theory captured the hearts and minds careers of many physicists decades ago because of a lack of empiricism beautiful simplicity.

Improved that somewhat.