Explainer: ELI5 string theory, a picture per page

The lines the agent sends:

say "Everything is made of tiny vibrating strings, and each vibration is a different particle."
>full
deck "String theory, simple"
page "Tiny strings, not dots" body="We used to think the smallest bits of stuff were dots. String theory says they are tiny loops, like rubber bands."
shapes caption="A dot becomes a loop."
shape dot Dot
shape arrow
shape circle String +pulse tone=mint
page "Wiggles make everything" body="A string can wiggle in many ways. Each wiggle is a different thing: light, matter, gravity."
sketch "One string, many wiggles" frame=bubble
row "Fast wiggle: light" +hi
row "Slow wiggle: a heavy particle"
row "A special wiggle: gravity"
page "Hidden dimensions" body="The math only works if space has extra dimensions, curled up so tiny we can never see them."
shapes caption="Tiny curled-up dimensions we can't see."
shape box "3D space we see" +pulse
shape arrow
shape dot "6 more, curled tight" tone=lavender
page "It's not proven" body="No one has seen a string. The math is beautiful but we have no proof yet."
stat 0 "Strings found so far" spark=0|0|0|0
choose "Where next?" "What is a dimension?"|"What is light made of?"|"What is gravity?"
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