By 
Clifford Johnson
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TED-Ed Original

String theory and the hidden structures of the universe

What is everything made of? Thus far we can break everything in the universe down to a few very small elementary particles. But they fit into strange patterns that are not understood. Some scientists believe that this is because we can go deeper - perhaps to simple vibrating strings! At TEDYouth 2012 Clifford Johnson describes these ideas along with the concept of string theory.

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