Well it was a wonderful feeling to think that all those years spent in the eleventh dimension will not completely wasted.

The two camps had been absolutely certain the other was wrong. Now suddenly, they realize their ideas complemented each other perfectly. With addition of one extra dimension, String Theory made sense again, but it had become a very different kind of theory.

What happened to the string?

The tiny invisible strings of String Theory were supposed to be the fundamental building laws of all the matter in the universe. But now, with addition of the eleventh dimension, they changed, they stretched and they combined. The astonishing conclusion was that all the matter in the universe was connected to one vast structure, a membrane.