String theory “philosophy” challenged

The big bang is fundamental to cosmic evolution or the idea that somehow the universe made itself. The article majored on the varying ideas that emanate from big bang philosophy, such as dark energy and dark matter etc. that are used to solve some of the “science” problems of the big bang. It then went on to say that string theory is just another one of these ideas with no basis in experimental science...

According Leonard Susskind, widely considered by string theorists to be the father of string theory, without string theory “...we would be left with no other rational explanation for the illusion of a designed universe.”

Basic reality seems to be that string theory is meant to provide enough universes to get past the problems which evolution has with basic probabilities, and evolution is perceived as necessary to prevent puritanical redneck Christians from outlawing sex. The whole thing is about sex.

I’d been swimming in a luxurious, long, deep pool in the San Fernando Valley at. 83° by a thermometer in the water while 100°+ in the air.

Sitting in the Sun, feet dangling in the water, I could see the light’s refracted patterns (Snell’s law) from it’s surface along the bottom of the pool.

I’d seen video documentary mock-ups to show how existence “looks” at or near the Planck Scale.
Yet here and now was an example even clearer.

Envisioning part of the pool bottom as a slice of “quantum space, filaments fleeted into - and out of - existence, each having been created by that gone before. And out of them bits of brightness, (again, reflections of the Sun along the surface, cast on the bottom and sides) would move along the length of each segment, intersecting with their ends...such “strings” quickly dissipating here, and reappearing there with each such interaction.

Moreover, there would enter waves of interference (by admittedly moving my legs) that would yield to the “strings” an even greater sense of overall excitation.

In a stretch, this might be seen as a representation of the “Uncertainty Principle” where at the quantum level, “virtual” entities come into and go out of existence, yet perhaps summing to an “actualization” of reality, which however even billions of years hence, may as likely decay and zap back into the void from whence they came.

And I’d bet too that this could all be worked out mathematically.

But, as I said, it’s merely a representation of such conditions, which is all that can ever be achieved at the Planck Scale anyway.

So, as this lazy day’s imaginings gave rise to other waxings, into the water I went, even in that second of submergence, to childhood again.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.