No problem. I'm not a professional either, but I read up and talk to scientists about these things. String theorists wanted to find a natural interrelation between physical properties. For example, gravity is as strong as it is because the weak and electromagnetic forces are as strong as they are they. All the forces are interrelated. Right now this hope is a spectacular failure. Strong theory as it is currently stands describes trillions of different universes similar to our own. So string theory is the farthest away ever from doing the very thing that string theorists wanted.
The one thing string theorists wanted out of string theory its spectacularly failing at. They wanted a theory that explains why the physical constants are what they are. Instead they now have a theory that describes some 10 to the power of 500 different universes. In other words, string theory can describe just about any universe you can think of with some similarity to ours. This makes it look more and more like a mathematical artifact than a useful physical theory.
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