string theory?

does anyone know about this? its astronomically influenced. something that has to do with galaxies and them all being tied together somehow? i think its something like that.

All I know is its a theory with 5 different mathematical models to explain it, and no-one has been succesful in tying them together or ironing out 4 in the favour of just the one "grand unified theory". It was invented to explain all the irregularities surrinding elementary particle physics, when they reached the limit of how big and small they could build accellerators from.

String Theory/M Theory is immensely complicated and very strange. But many scientists think it could be the key to explaining everything. From the laws of physics to how the big bang was created. There has of yet been no way to actually prove string theory. So right now it's about as viable as a religion at the moment.

The basic concept is that the smallest thing in the universe, immensely smaller than even an Atom are these strings of energy. These strings each vibrate differently, which create the different particles that make up our universe. If string theory is true, it also shows that our universe is only one of many universes out there and there is more dimensions than we are aware of.

If you really want to get a decent idea of what the theory is, defined in easy to understand get on a torrent site and find/download a series called The Elegant Universe, it's a 3 part documentary on it, and the narrator really tries to explain it to the everyday person in ways we can grasp the concept.

sounds complicated. ever since

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Originally Posted by Melkane

String Theory/M Theory is immensely complicated and very strange. But many scientists think it could be the key to explaining everything. From the laws of physics to how the big bang was created. There has of yet been no way to actually prove string theory. So right now it's about as viable as a religion at the moment.

The basic concept is that the smallest thing in the universe, immensely smaller than even an Atom are these strings of energy. These strings each vibrate differently, which create the different particles that make up our universe. If string theory is true, it also shows that our universe is only one of many universes out there and there is more dimensions than we are aware of.

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I thought Relativity had already demonstrated that there are more than 4 dimensions. Warped space has been measured several times, in different ways, and warped anything requires something to warp into, for example a warped peice of 2-D paper requires 3 dimensions.

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Originally Posted by Melkane

If you really want to get a decent idea of what the theory is, defined in easy to understand get on a torrent site and find/download a series called The Elegant Universe, it's a 3 part documentary on it, and the narrator really tries to explain it to the everyday person in ways we can grasp the concept.

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Unless it can be explained to the man in the pub it ain't worth nothing.

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Originally Posted by Melkane

String Theory/M Theory is immensely complicated and very strange. But many scientists think it could be the key to explaining everything. From the laws of physics to how the big bang was created. There has of yet been no way to actually prove string theory. So right now it's about as viable as a religion at the moment.

The basic concept is that the smallest thing in the universe, immensely smaller than even an Atom are these strings of energy. These strings each vibrate differently, which create the different particles that make up our universe. If string theory is true, it also shows that our universe is only one of many universes out there and there is more dimensions than we are aware of.

If you really want to get a decent idea of what the theory is, defined in easy to understand get on a torrent site and find/download a series called The Elegant Universe, it's a 3 part documentary on it, and the narrator really tries to explain it to the everyday person in ways we can grasp the concept.

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the elegant universe is actually what i was watching. very interesting but kinda funky

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Originally Posted by Staurm

I thought Relativity had already demonstrated that there are more than 4 dimensions. Warped space has been measured several times, in different ways, and warped anything requires something to warp into, for example a warped peice of 2-D paper requires 3 dimensions

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Warping 3 dimensional space would require 4 dimensions, but string theory requires a universe with either 10 or 26 dimensions, for mathmatical reasons I don't begin to comprehend.

General relativity also requires multi dimensional space, also donot ask me why its to do with Eisteins field equations. My knowledge of GR goes as far as geodesics and Schwarzschild radii.