In a final desperate move, the String Theories tried adding one last thing to their cherished idea. They added the very thing they had spent a decade rubbishing--the eleventh dimension. Now something almost magically happened to the five competing string theories.

The answer turned out to be and it really was absolutely remarkable, I mean it really is remarkable. It turns out that they were all the same. These five string theories turned out to be simply different manifestations of a more fundamental theory, precisely this theory which we had discarded back in the early 1980s.

In the eleventh dimension, looking from the mountain top, looking down, you could see String Theory as being part of a much larger reality, reality of the eleventh dimension.

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