Goodreads asked Ned White:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ned White For STRING THEORIES, there is no simple answer. I wrote this at a time in my life when certain effects converged: I was deeply immersed in quantum theory and its close relative, string theory; I had come to know people quite well who were fully absorbed in a variety of "new age" thought and practices, as well as adopting Taoist and Buddhist philosophies; and lastly, I was living in northern New Mexico, where science, faith and inspirations of all kinds start to conflate in fascinating ways. The book is predominantly a love story - a young woman on the Buddhist path, a young brilliant physicist afflicted with amnesia - but it's otherwise a mystery and adventure involving a wide range of forces ( some in the metaphysical realm) and eccentric characters. Some will say, "the book wrote itself." This is not true with STRING THEORIES. It took an immense amount of planning and design, a careful roadmap to its finale, and plenty of research into both physics and Taoism.

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