Superstring

not sure how i got here, but here's a quote from superstringtheory.com:

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Type IIA superstring theory has a stable one-brane solution called the fundamental string. If we take M theory with the tenth space dimension compactified into a circle of radius R, and wrap one of the dimensions of the M2 brane around that circle, then the result is the fundamental string of the type IIA theory. When the M2 brane is not around that circle, then the result is the two-dimensional D-brane, the D2 brane, of the type IIA theory.
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listen to yourselves, people. i guess there's no reason to expect a simple result when you're looking for the structure of the universe, but damn. i know there is a real mathematical analog behind this theory, behind these statements, it just seems to me that there's a freedom in complexity that's been exploited (perhaps unintentionally) by this whole line of inquiry.