Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Randall's maze rapup

Ok so after that pathetic excuse for a post yesterday let’s see if I can come up with something more intelligent to say today. And today’s topic is superstring theory. Oh boy. Ok so instead of particles looking like little pool balls we say they are tiny strings. And let’s say they can oscillate in different ways, just like a guitar (or for a more accurate analogy and a way cooler interment, the one stringed Chinese Duxianqin) to make different notes. Each of these notes turns into a different fundamental particle such as a quark or an electron. So superstring theory says that the whole world is made out of nothing but strings. If you think about it this way all the issues with bringing together quantum mechanics and general relativity, which is notoriously hard to do. Extra dimensions come in when you look at the math. The theory doesn’t really make sense if you only have 3 spatial dimensions but the math works out perfectly if you have for example, 10. This may sound like a crackpot theory but only time and some more investigation will be able to say.

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