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Post by cerinovelmonday on Apr 19, 2010 2:14:52 GMT -5
Today I would like to bring up an interesting topic that many of you may find interesting. String Theory. This is could possibly be the grand unified theory of everything. Honestly, the average person does not know what string theory is. First lets break down the term. Lets say you have a carbon molecule. If you smash that hard enough, you get protons, neutrons, and electrons. If you smash that hard enough, you get quarks. Inside the quarks are very small vibrating strings hence the term string theory. These strings are made up of pure energy. And if you smash that hard enough, you get light. The cool thing about these strings is that they can become anything just by vibrating in different ways. So that means a bottle can become a TV, a couch can become a car, a fan can become a microwave just by changing the vibration of the strings. There are a lot more fundamentals to string theory which I will get to eventually. Chat and Discuss  |
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Post by speakmouthwords on Apr 19, 2010 7:18:02 GMT -5
I would be reluctant to make a distinction between pure energy and light.
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Post by Ryan on Apr 19, 2010 9:32:26 GMT -5
I believe there was a TED Talk that brought up a good point about string theory. It said something along the lines of, "If you're not a string theorist with an advanced knowledge of physics and a great deal of research on the topic, then you really have nothing to say about string theory."
The point of the guy saying that wasn't to be rude, but to say that such theories are so complicated that without prior knowledge and background in their study - the concepts are beyond the grasp of most people.
"Man's reach exceeds his grasp"
While many would like to learn about this popular theory - I don't know how valuable a discussion would be here on the moon.
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Post by jmejia1187 on Apr 19, 2010 11:21:02 GMT -5
I believe there was a TED Talk that brought up a good point about string theory. It said something along the lines of, "If you're not a string theorist with an advanced knowledge of physics and a great deal of research on the topic, then you really have nothing to say about string theory." The point of the guy saying that wasn't to be rude, but to say that such theories are so complicated that without prior knowledge and background in their study - the concepts are beyond the grasp of most people. "Man's reach exceeds his grasp" While many would like to learn about this popular theory - I don't know how valuable a discussion would be here on the moon. While what is written in the first post are the predictions of string theory, it isn't string theory. String theory IS NOT EXPLAINABLE IN WORDS AS IT IS A MATHEMATICAL EQUATION. What might be explained in words, and hypothesized are it's implications. Again I am not a physicist, I am a biologist. But Tyme is right, unless we know the equations by heart, we should have nothing to say about it |
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Post by cerinovelmonday on Apr 19, 2010 12:20:53 GMT -5
I would be reluctant to make a distinction between pure energy and light. Actually light is a form of energy like friction and heat |
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Post by Ryan on Apr 19, 2010 12:47:56 GMT -5
light is the purest form of energy
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Post by bleabot on Apr 19, 2010 16:03:47 GMT -5
I would be reluctant to make a distinction between pure energy and light. Actually light is a form of energy like friction and heat Friction is a force. Heat is the transfer of energy. Well, I think so, anyway. I wasn't good in thermodynamics. =( Anyway, I love string theory...but my knowledge of it is lacking. I think I like it so much because it's so strange but logical at the same time, and each time I look it up, I learn something completely new about it. |
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Post by AkeR on Apr 19, 2010 16:29:06 GMT -5
if these strings exist in quarks do they also exist in leptons?
im doing physics at a-level but im completely lost on string theory when any kind of detail is introduced =P
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Post by Ryan on Apr 19, 2010 21:37:02 GMT -5
strings make up everything except light (i'm pretty sure, but like I said earlier talking about string theory is WAY out of my league and most people here's)
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Post by Helmet on Apr 20, 2010 19:50:22 GMT -5
The one thing that is confusing me is that for a bottle to turn into a TV, wouldn't there have to be the same number of atoms in each object?
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Post by Nakor on Apr 20, 2010 20:14:30 GMT -5
Well, close I think. I believe it's actually the same amount of energy. Matter is one form of energy so (theoretically) you could convert energy of another form into matter (much like an atom bomb does the opposite).
I think the OP was thinking too big in his description. It's probably more like the type of particles can change. </noclue>
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Post by FranticProdigy on Apr 21, 2010 13:54:38 GMT -5
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
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Post by cooltiger413 on Apr 21, 2010 17:32:03 GMT -5
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Post by mr mac on Apr 23, 2010 1:19:50 GMT -5
MM I think you guys get a bit too excited by this. I think that string theory is a mathematical possibility but I don't think its something that exists. From what I have read about this topic, string theory requires 5 or so extra dimensions after time. I feel that scientists has come up with a theory, hit a wall, made up an idea to get around it, hit another wall and so on until the maths proves its viability. I don't know is it just me or is it a bit fishy?
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Post by Ryan on Apr 23, 2010 1:28:01 GMT -5
common dimensional theory (even outside of string theory) suggests that there are at least 10 dimensions. It's not that big of a stretch for string theorists to use them to postulate their theories. Higher dimensional math has been around for ages. In fact - I could probably integrate a function over 7 dimensions accurately. String theorists have simply come up with a way to apply higher dimensional math to a possible physical application - strings.
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Post by Nakor on Apr 23, 2010 1:35:32 GMT -5
It's actually testing the theories that's the problem. The technology isn't there yet.
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Post by priam on Apr 23, 2010 2:08:55 GMT -5
boobs on bikes was on today ^^
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