Don't take my comment too seriously, although it is based on serious speculation and thought. I only wanted to refer on the one hand to the philosophical or at

Don't take my comment too seriously, although it is based on serious speculation and thought. I only wanted to refer on the one hand to the philosophical or at least linguistic problem, what a 'thing' is and the possibility of the unification to one field of the, up to now still multiform, thing in the quantum field theory we call Universe. Just a mind game. Or not... ;-) What is meant in the article is that one needs currently 11 coordinates in a mathematical space which is supposed to be a mapping of our physical reality to describe a point in it.