May 24 2012: Hi Felippa, String theory is one attempt to explain how matter gets its properties such as mass and gravity. It does this by attributing each known particle as if it were a string vibrating in different frequencies such that each vibration frequency ties in to a certain characteristic of the particle. No question is stupid!
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