Do you believe the string theory might one day be more than a theory?
Do you believe we are just living on a "membrane" surrounded by many other dimensions?
What would it be like to know that there may be *other* universes with *intelligent* beings??
What if we could find a way to contact them?
The implications of all of this are so exciting i can barely stand it!
2007-03-08 17:38:18 · 6 answers · asked by B 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
lol, the possibilities are exciting aren't they
but u have to think, if universes are parallel to each other then it makes no sense of having a membrane, a membrane has a beginning and end right? like a cell, universes for all we know could be infinite, if one universe is lets say a billion times bigger then the one right next to it, then whats to stop it from acting like a black hole and sucking it right in? i mean i'm not really informed and taught in this subject but i guess i make sense, atleas to myself lol :)
2007-03-08 17:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
String theory has become very fashionable but has had not a single success in predicting an experimental result yet. This is a very serious - indeed fatal - failing. So much so that a number of eminent physicists were featured in a Radio 4 news item yesterday saying that a generation of the brightest scientist had basically "wasted their careers" on a failed theory.
Having done physics to PhD level I have to say that string theory is very unsatisfactory and untidy - it lacks the basic elegance of quantum theory or general relativity. More worrying is the attempts of its proponents to popularise it with the sort of science fantasy that you cite. There are almost certainly not other universes, if they are we cannot contact them and there are almost certainly plenty of intelligent beings elsewhere in our own.
I am waiting for a seriously insightful theory that will elegantly explain the early universe and some of these mysteries rather than the mathematical tangle of strings and unphysical predictions we currently have.
2007-03-09 03:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What rhsaunder and epidavros said. Believe it was Sheldon Glashow who commented that if you have a theory which makes predictions you can never check, its philosophy, not science. Kinda sums up the current situation.
As far as needing parallel universes to open up possibilities for exploration, just remember that if our solar system is the size of a dime, our own galaxy is the size of South Africa. Plenty to check out around the hood.
2007-03-09 04:21:47 · answer #3 · answered by SAN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The string theory isn't even a theory yet; it is merely a framework on which a theory might one day be constructed. The bottom line: the jury is definitely out on this one.
2007-03-09 01:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may think this strange, but people who have had near death experiences have returned to tell about a strange vibration they encountered in the afterlife. String theory is basically vibration of these strings that make things the way they are. God used music or sound to create everything.
2007-03-09 01:54:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I ,too, am very thrilled to learn that theory. but important part is explained only by pres ice mathematics , so I gave up hope to understand it .esp . string theory needs multi-dimensional group theory , I am not good at adding even 3 digits,lol
2007-03-09 01:50:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋