While it is far from complete and even farther from experimental verification, String Theory has grown deep roots in some parts of the physics population. Though it presents huge challenges for its adherents and has drawn a large amount of criticism, skepticism and general disbelief from respected scientists, the potential rewards of a complete String Theory far outweigh the difficulties involved in pursuing it. It remains a highly speculative but promising area of theoretical physics, for it attempts to solve discrepancies that other attempts have so far failed to resolve. It is a theory to pay attention to, if only because of the merit of the questions that it raises and attempts to answer; and in the end, it may end up becoming just what it aspires to be: a complete Theory of Everything, a tool which we can use to comprehend our universe and how we have come into being. If not, then at least it has thrown a little fuel into the intellectual fire…even if we all burn a little for it.

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