之所以有如此众多的人从事其研究，其原因在于，无论弦理论有着怎样的瑕疵，比起我们所有的任何其他探索途径，弦理论仍然是目前最有前景的学说。

The reason so many people keep working on it is that, whatever its flaws, the theory is still more promising than any other approach we have.

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布莱恩·葛林可能是超弦理论的支持者中最著名的一位了，超弦理论认为宇宙中的力和粒子是由11维空间中振动的微小的弦产生的。

Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.

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格林尼认为理解多元宇宙的关键是弦理论。过去的25年间，他一直在研究弦理论。

Greene thinks the key to understanding these multiverses comes from string theory, the area of physics he has studied for the past 25 years.

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And so there are only two kinds of waves that can exist on this violin string, standing or traveling.

由于这只有两种波,可以存在在这条弦上，驻波或行波。

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The second thing is, just as in the case of the violin string, the wave equation, as posed by Schrodinger, has a plurality of solutions.

第二，就那个小提琴弦而言，波动方程，被薛定谔所提出的，有许多解法。

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All of the sounds are produced by the strings on the instrument and how the bow is pulled across the instrument.

所有声音都是靠乐器上的弦产生的,琴弓在乐器上来回滑动发声

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