Atoms (what EVERYTHING is made of) is made of particles and those particles are made of strings according to String Theory. The different particles and thusly atoms are due to the different vibrations of the strings. However we are all made of the infinitessimally small strings. You could conclude that since everything is made of strings then all strings had to originate from the same source. But what are strings? Well they exist in (I believe) 15 dimensions while we only exist in 4 and they are bands of energy. Thus, strings had to come from something that exists in more than 4 dimensions (In other words, beyond the dimension of time) and is of a more energy nature and not so physical as we are. Isnt this how God is described? As an energy (dare I say, a source of energy) and being outside the realm or bounds of time. According to ST, the Big Bang occurred when two membranes bumped each other. What (or who) made the membranes?
2007-08-28 04:25:36 · 10 answers · asked by MrMyers 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok so I have a few mistakes (namely the # of dimensions). I apologize... it has been a while since I saw the Elegant Universe. And I should have left off the last part involving "Who created the branes?"...
Feel free to edit your answers and tell me where I am wrong.
For whoever said that we are 11 dimensional beings that can only perceive 4... you sound like a theisit who says "I know you cant see God, but he is there." If you don't perceive it then does it exist or not?!?
2007-08-28 08:02:55 · update #1
Strings are thought to be 11 dimensional (Or 11 dimensional math is used to model them)
Since you and I are (hypothetically) made up from these strings then you and I are also 11 dimensional objects. We only get to perceive 4 and have some control over our movement in 3.
Why do the membranes need to be created? If everything that exists needs a creator, then what created the creator of the membranes?
At some point something must have just existed. Otherwise you end up in an infinite recursion of creators creating creators.
So which is more likely, a multiverse of simple, non-intelligent membranes existing in 11 dimensions.
Or an infinitely complex creator that then chose to create a multiverse of simple, non-intelligent membranes existing in 11 dimensions.
This would be like saying that if I find a rock on the ground that it was not just eroded by the forces of nature, but that some alien had deliberately created it on some foreign planet and had then placed it for me to find. Yes it is possible, but no one in their right mind is going to consider it.
2007-08-28 04:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Intelligence is a product of the universe, not the other way round. It makes no sense to say that something which took 4 billion years of evolution to develop on Earth could just exist for no reason at all, from nowhere, from nothing, and design and make a universe.
2007-08-28 04:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
These parallel waving branes are an assumption to find out if them colliding would result in a big bang, which it seems to do. Still that doesn't mean there really are branes like that, as they're only a mathematical representation to mathematically simulate a certain situation.
2007-08-28 04:44:51 · answer #3 · answered by Batfish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same old tired argument for god: "Since we don't know how 'X' came to be, then it must be 'GOD'. Sorry that argument does not follow logically.
By the way, String theory (small t) has not been proven yet. Scientists consider it as a hypothetical. There is literally no evidence for it as of this moment.
Do a little more reading on the topic.
2007-08-28 04:32:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not remotely, you need to study a lot more.
There is a very good show you should watch that Discovery Science has shown on M theory and the beginning of the Universe.
NOWHERE in it did it feel the need to start babbling about invisible flying creatures.
2007-08-28 06:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...that doesn't allude to God any more than it alludes to Krishna, Santa, or a ham sandwich. You're attempting to insert something that has nothing to do with those theories, because you have a theological bias. Science observes and explains, it does not start with an explaination and look for proof of it.
2007-08-28 04:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a nice enough idea that you can believe if you wish. But it's nothing more than the old "everything has a cause" explanation. To me the idea that whatever brought matter into existence can be prayed to, is completely ludicrous.
2007-08-28 04:40:38 · answer #7 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it alludes to levels of reality currently beyond human understanding and measurement.
that is not necessarily one or multiple gods, any more than a 19th-century conceptualization of dark matter or nutrinos equates to any god, any more than a 10th century grasp of the Van Allen Belt equates to a god.
2007-08-28 04:32:48 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your shoddy understanding of physics is only surpassed by your shoddy understanding of theology.
2007-08-28 04:31:41 · answer #9 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
from what are the membrames made of ?
2007-08-28 04:35:02 · answer #10 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋