Posted on 07/30/2018 3:26:36 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I’m not sure what to think of this, since nothing about string theory has ever been proven experimentally, and it will take a cyclotron the size of the moon’s orbit around the earth to ever interact with a “string.”
Dang. This will definitely drive up prices.
There is ONE universe.
Solutions to equations do not create universes. This is really backwards.
String theory is obviously wrong.
I like John Wheeler’s “Its From Bits” or the “Participatory Anthropic Principle.”
Why can’t there be more than one universe?
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“String theory” CANNOT create any “universes”.
As a theory it can postulate things, it canot “create” them.
Beyond that, string theory is a matematical consruct used to keep employed a bunch of scientists that figured out a good but useless theory to play with every day, and too often at taxpayers expense.
Meanwhile, there is zero empirical evidence for what string theorists imagine their math postulates.
“String theory is an attempt to describe the whole universe under a single “theory of everything” by adding extra dimensions of spacetime and thinking of particles as miniscule vibrating loops”
And before proposing the theory, the empirical evidence for adding extra dimensions of spacetime comes from where? From the string theorists imgainations, and no where else.
So string theory starts by employing imaginary facts for which no proof exsists and we are supposed to take the rest of what it produces seriously? I don’t think so.
a while back the intellectual elites argued over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. now they argue over string theory. same relevance.
Equations cannot create reality. It’s the other way around.
Multiverses are speculative to the 500th power, and conjectural.
Real multiverses occur only when you memorize long passages of scripture or poetry.
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> But so far it [string theory] lacks any experimental evidence supporting it—and even worse, any reasonable prospects for gathering such evidence. <
That’s the key sentence in the whole article. So as I see it, since string theory cannot be verified experimentally, it isn’t even science. It’s just math-based gibberish.
Some of the math developed for String Theory has found other uses, like developing better models of surface boundaries in solids. Very useful for the science of materials, it’s wrong to say its a waste. In it’s original use it very well could be a waste, but it’s a “tool” and creative people will find other uses for the “tool”.
String theory and dark matter theory are likely dead ends and have peaked in interest.
Of growing consideration are electro-magnetic effects on the global, solar, galactic and possibly inter galactic scale. Space is a permeated by fluid, called plasma. It’s filled with it. The fluid impacts gravity and may be why galaxies are not separating, since there’s magnetic charges holding it together.
Same fluid also drives climate, as the upper atmosphere electrically pulls on the crust, or relaxes; driving earthquakes and volcanos which alternatively throw shade on the planet.
All this is a much cleaner explanation for cosmology, geography and climate than any other model.
Which should disqualify it as a confirmed "theory" and reduce it back to just another hypothesis.
Indeed, if you think about it, what part of such hypotheses can even theoretically be falsified?
If the answer is "none", then it's not even a hypothesis but should be thought of as mere scientific brain-storming.
Don't get me wrong -- brainstorming potential explanations is just as important as any other scientific procedure.
But let's not get carried away by routinely equating brainstorming to other highly confirmed scientific theories.
Words, words and more words.....
Even the sharpest knife grows dull with the passage of time.
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