String theory states that the way gravity traps us on Earth is similar to the way that flys get stuck to a spider’s web. Vibrations in the string suggest that the Universe Spider is 50 or so light years away, but is being held back by dark energy, which has evil strings that have formed a sort of butterfly net around her to capture her. For science!
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People who are far more well educated than me in this area of physics have very complicated and often diametrically opposed opinions; its an interesting idea to entertain. Other than that, basically the same stance, I remain unconvinced mostly because to my knowledge there’s not a solid consensus; String Theory has been helpful and has several practical applications in physics that I am way too uneducated to understand, but its one of those models that the people using it know is wrong in some way even if they don’t know how yet.
I’m not physicist, nor do I have a good amateur understanding of this level of physics, nor does it affect my life in any way that warrants me paying particularly close attention to, so I let the people who know what they talking about argue about it and defer to their opinions.
I do look forward to any progress made is further confirming or falsifying the theory, as I do for every field of science as an even nominally science-minded person; maybe a bit saddened, but ultimately happy that humanity as a whole is slightly less wrong than before.
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BlueprintsForHyperDimensionalAngles - A Failed Imitation of Yi Sang(CW: an insincere hate on the string theory)
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Lady of the Sun; Spider of the Night
Been playing as them in the Sims 3. Though I’ve moved on to other households since (I’m big on hopping around households and not sticking to just one).
Lady PsPsPsFs belongs to @ariaterramoon
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being crushed into subatomic spaghetti by a black hole initially feels like a tender embrace
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Inspired by that art I did for the After the Ball contest, I come out of my depression to present…
- String Theory -
Thank you to Sparkbird indirectly!
Also a thank you to @four-birds-in-a-trenchcoat for giving me references for the outfit; haugh FL 3DS am I right?
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{#THE HERTA} String Theory•Valley.exe
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Have you read String Theory by Dirk Grundy?
Yes, completely!
Yes, partially
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I’ve never heard of it
See Results“The main character is Dr. Herville Schtein and he’s not a nice person at all. In fact the comic is about his descent into being an even not nicer person. Do you like anti heros? Because I wouldn’t even call him that. If you wanna read a comic about the origin story of a jerk ass noodle armed super villain, well here we are.”
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i’ve always been reluctant to read any of the books because i am worried the characterizations might be off (and because i think some fanfic writers do a much better job anyway–insert fangirl blushing here), but hey, i might just make an exception for that one!
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i haven’t read any of the books, but i am indeed very interested in that one 👀
the only reason i’m aware of its existence at all is because of this beautiful fic over here: Even when I am not, I am by @trillscienceofficer (sneaky fic rec for anyone who sees this)
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my spotify wrapped spotify capped because there’s no way in HELL I listened to hanahaki syndrome more times than string theory
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6 Mind-Bending Ideas from String Theory That Go Beyond the ‘Theory of Everything’
6 Mind-Bending Ideas from String Theory That Go Beyond the 'Theory of Everything’
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The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Greene utilises beautiful analogies to describe abstract concepts in a digestible way, from special relativity and the photon clock, to the reappearances of George and Gracie and Slim and Jim—he makes learning these concepts fun, continuously linking back to previous chapters, or providing links to the chapters ahead, so you can view the larger picture.
First, Greene sets up the age-old clash of QM & GR, but before long (roughly chapter 6), he begins to dive into the core ideas of string theory. Despite the abstract ideas, I found Greene’s descriptions extremely helpful, as well as having a string that I could model with. Yet, this made me consider whether we’re held back conceptually. What if the real model of the universe was locked behind the limits of what we can perceive and understand?
Often I find the complex maths of higher-level physics overwhelming, and hearing of the use of computers and programming to do the calculations helped. In school, we tend to see the calculations of physics as the easy part and the explanations as the harder part—that’s why it’s so important to learn and understand the concepts fully —ripping away the maths and solely showing the concepts is a really good approach to open science to more people, and to set good foundations.
Personally, one of the most intriguing things were the Calabi Yau spaces.
Not only the story of combining maths and physics [some regard them as the same field but they’re not!], but the sheer complexity of them. Further, the idea of just cutting below the Planck length was such a shock! Strings just bouncing back and growing had never occurred to me—how are simple ideas chained back due to shame or doubt; is it better to outwardly say your ideas to not mislead, or to help science develop by outing them?
As well as this, 1/R and R radii strings having the same properties link to all black holes having “no hair”, with the same mass force charge and area they’re identical!
Specifically, I found the description of Einstein’s reluctance to accept Bohr’s probabilistic quantum mechanics intriguing. His loyalty to determinism (shown also in his insistence in the cosmological constant), shows that physics is affected by biases, and that even revered physicists sometimes cannot look past their own preferences.
This book is dated in aspects since it’s ~30 years old, but it reflects the philosophical, neat view that the 90s held towards unifying theories, & physics in general. An idea being beautiful (like string theory) doesn’t mean it’s true—could this bias influence how it’s seen as evidence & the prevalence of that idea going forwards? Greene highlights how science is a creative process. For example, how string theory has the theory first, and the equations are so complex, they just have approximations. It really makes you think if it blurs the line between mathematical theory and description, and whether it’s more driven by logic, or imagination. It made me think of Karl Popper’s idea of falsifiability — can a theory that can’t be tested count as scientific?
This book being dated did, to an extent, help, as I had to further research topics to see if they were still relevant. For example, the idea of string-driven cosmic inflation hasn’t had much further evidence, and the LHC didn’t find any evidence of strings either.
I believe that, rather than using string theory as a legitimate answer, we should evaluate its strengths and weaknesses–and Greene’s book perfectly demonstrates the hopes of the time. The idea of supersymmetry being used yet again made me think of bias—how much of this is a good idea, and how much of it is a bias towards beauty?
[ACTUAL CONCEPTS]
- “Black holes have no hair” as they’re only defined by charge, spin, mass.
- Strings/branes could explain black-hole structure: wrapped branes resemble gravitational fields of extremal black holes.
- Number of possible string vibrations = black-hole entropy; hints at a quantum description of gravity.
- Hawking radiation explained by virtual particle pairs at the event horizon; temperature far too small to detect.
- Raises the “information paradox”: if wavefunctions fall in, can information ever be restored?= later evidence was discovered to support this
- Extremal branes might store information, suggesting a holographic link between surface area and internal data.
- Laplacian determinism fails because of the uncertainty principle.
- “Quantum determinism”; probabilities fixed by the wavefunction, not exact outcomes.
- Black holes challenge both: they seem to destroy the wavefunction altogether.
- Inflation solves the horizon problem by rapid early expansion; keeps temperature uniform.
- Symmetry breaking: strong, weak and EM forces were unified at high temperature.
- String theory offers an explanation for why only 3 spatial dimensions expanded—strings in 3D collide and annihilate most efficiently, freeing those dimensions.
- Calabi–Yau shapes (extra curled dimensions) could rip, merge and reform during the Big Bang.
- Strings might be “shards” of spacetime; their vibrations generate geometry rather than move through it.
- Holographic principle; reality in 3D could be encoded on a 2D surface (like black-hole entropy).
- Zero-branes & non-commutative geometry; space itself may not exist at the smallest scales; distances become meaningless.
- M-theory unites different string theories through quantum connections.
- Anthropic principle: our universe’s parameters suit life because we exist in one that allows it.
- Smolin’s “cosmic natural selection”; universes reproduce through black holes; those optimized for black-hole production “survive.”
- Suggests physics could evolve like biology; a philosophical bridge between science and metaphysics.
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FF.net link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14518777/4/Parahuman-Testing-Initiative
SB link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/parahuman-testing-initiative.1265224/#post-116584301
The finale. Greg Veder goes on a science adventure, and scores a sweet internship on top of that!
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Science vs Psuedoscience
Lured–hook, line, and sinker. Just because its mainstream or academia hypes it doesn’t make it true.
Everything is set up in a cult to keep you from questioning it. if you question it, you become a heretic.
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Reality’s End, Chapter Twenty-One
I’ve never seen a superstring before, but, really, they look pretty much like what their name would imply. These ones appear to be open strings—gauge-theory degrees of freedom—with their ends anchored to a three-plus-one-dimensional Dirichlet brane that looks remarkably like a cello. If I pluck them, a black hole in a higher-dimensional anti-de Sitter bulk spacetime will start to sing the gavotte from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 in a chorus of quasi-normal tensor modes; this is how cellos have always worked, and the lack of attention paid to them is a serious oversight on the part of experimental physicists.
(I don’t actually remember having carried a cello with me all the way from Ottawa, but I suppose that, what with the commotion, I probably just didn’t notice.)
That’s “The Dead-Enders”, this week in Reality’s End!