......ok, that's long enough. now that you are completely confused let me tell you my personal superstring theory. if you have done your research like i asked, you'll know that there is a plethora of string theories, they all range from 10 dimensions to 26 dimensions. open strings, closed strings, m theory, double-spin, blah, blah, blah. it's all to confusing for the bootster. since i'm not a genius like most of the posters here, all that string theory stuff is over my head, so i made up my own: remember that we have always observed things as 3 dimensional perspective, it is hard to observe or notice any of the other dimensions using our senses. for instance, you drive down a highway in the desert for 20 miles, it's one of those real straight ones that disappear into the distance. you drive the mentioned 20 miles, you have gone in a straight line right? wrong, observing from our 3-D perspective it seems straight, but actually you have driven in a curve because of the curvature of the earth. a corkscrew because of the spin of the planet and all types of whacky patterns when you cnsider the direction you are driving when you take in the added dimensions of our planet rotating around the sun and solor system spinning around the galaxy shapes... o.k. keeping the unobservableness of multidimension from our 3-D perspective, think of infinite number of strings that are infinate in length and sub molecular in width. these strings (all string theroies i've read about are between 10-D and 26-D) are at least 10 dimensional. they are separated by infinate number of universes (imagine a reem of paper with a string running right though the middle of it, the sheets of paper are "universes"). inside our universe our portion of the string you are looking at looks like a particle. if, for instance, you can see an electron, no matter what angle you look at it,it looks like you can see all sides of it. because of the constraints of our 3-D senses we can only see the "slice" of the superstring. remember it is at least 10-D and we cannot see the portions that are not in our universe. everybody understand?..... good...next week the boot heel theory.