Y'know, membranes, superstrings, gravitons...etc. etc.
2006-06-19 06:49:46 · 10 answers · asked by picsnap 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I'm trying to learn more about it. It's an interesting topic.
2006-06-26 05:23:34 · answer #1 · answered by FY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I am familar with superstring theory, but I think there are very few people who really understand it. Sure, I can also name some terminologies like D-Brane, M-Theory, Supersymmetry, closed-loop strings (this is a graviton), etc. But I can't explain to you why superstring theory imply that there are 6 or 7 additional higher spatial dimensions, or why these higher dimensions are compactified or culed up into infinitessmal shapes. Or tell you why some superstring theorist say that there are 10^500 different possible universes that possibly coexist with our own, and that our universe is just one tiny bubble in an immense cosmic sea filled with bubble universes, each with its own laws of physics and its own set of elementary particles.
2006-06-19 14:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by PhysicsDude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's an off-shoot of the implications of quantum mechanics. Subatomic particles do not follow the simplistic 4-d physics of Newton, but follow that of an 11th dimensional world. In the mathematics, the strings needed 11 dimensions to move and radiate matter correctly. The anwers made sense with 11 dimensions.
2006-06-19 16:57:47 · answer #3 · answered by trancevanbuuren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be a theory in physics it has to be a university accepted thesis.You could do a thesis search.
2006-06-19 14:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the one that proposes that the little vibrating strings are inside atoms and are determing practically everything with their vibrations?
If it is, yeah, then I know about that.
2006-06-19 14:11:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
String thoery? thats sooo 90's. please reffer to the mother of all theories. The possible true GUT! M theory. google it and get ready for some serious reading.
2006-06-19 19:57:02 · answer #6 · answered by Brian J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean the one with lots of hypotheses and that probably can never be proved or disproved... Yes.
2006-06-19 14:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by Curious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yah, sure. Resonance is key.
Bloody showoff.
2006-06-19 14:02:32 · answer #8 · answered by Grendle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the parts that 'work' or the parts that get modified to work?
2006-06-19 14:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by 1crazypj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I'd like to. It sounds really interesting.
2006-06-19 13:53:17 · answer #10 · answered by Michele 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋