Naveed Akhtar I see a metaphor as a weaker analogy. analogy tends to be strong but the connection of a string to string theory is tenuous but it gets part of the idea across just like a metaphor does, never completely bridging concepts together but certain properties

Naveed Akhtar
I see a metaphor as a weaker analogy.

analogy tends to be strong

but the connection of a string to string theory is tenuous but it gets part of the idea across just like a metaphor does, never completely bridging concepts together but certain properties