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Interesting article. Wanted to see what our scientist Freepers think about string theory.
1 posted on 01/21/2006 6:16:34 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
Interesting, as to what is real this morning, its my arthritis!

They could be just stringing us along - there is a lot we don't know, but we surely know more than we did 100 or even 10 years ago!

Keep on investigating and searching and somebody, someday, will figure it out, maybe.

2 posted on 01/21/2006 6:27:19 AM PST by RAY
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To: mlc9852

I saw that NOVA show on String Theory and thought it was excellent. Clear and well-presented.

It appeared to be a new format for the show -- where they actually fit some CONTENT into the hour for a change.


3 posted on 01/21/2006 6:35:09 AM PST by martin_fierro (00111100 00100000 01111100 00111010 00101001 01111110)
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To: mlc9852

Is String Theroy for real? I'm a fraid knot?


5 posted on 01/21/2006 6:53:07 AM PST by pikachu (Every man needs the love or a good woman or the love of two bad women. often too!)
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To: mlc9852
[from the linked site]

Others have tried to argue that developments such as chaos theory tell us that new kinds of laws come into play when the level of complexity of a system increases.

Chaos theory seems to apply fairly well to government...

7 posted on 01/21/2006 9:10:54 AM PST by mikrofon (Newt-RINOs)
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To: mlc9852
String theory. Something my mind does not fully understand, yet accepts.

Same with alternate universes. In order for God to make good out of evil, in order for God to exonerate bad choices (I know I'm saying this wrong), ALL realities MUST exists!

If every action has a reaction, then every action and reaction must have an outcome Somehow.

String theory supports this, IMO, because it deals with the reality of action..not the theory.

I know, Go ahead...

8 posted on 01/21/2006 11:30:16 AM PST by EequalsMC2
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Largest Ball of Sisal Twine

13 posted on 01/21/2006 8:53:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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Is String Theory Even Wrong?
by Peter Woit
American Scientist
March-April 2002
It is best described by Wolfgang Pauli's famous phrase, "It's not even wrong." String theory not only makes no predictions about physical phenomena at experimentally accessible energies, it makes no precise predictions whatsoever. Even if someone were to figure out tomorrow how to build an accelerator capable of reaching the astronomically high energies at which particles are no longer supposed to appear as points, string theorists would be able to do no better than give qualitative guesses about what such a machine might show. At the moment string theory cannot be falsified by any conceivable experimental result... With such a dramatic lack of experimental support, string theorists often attempt to make an aesthetic argument, professing that the theory is strikingly "elegant" or "beautiful."

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14 posted on 01/22/2006 5:59:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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Ping!

15 posted on 01/22/2006 6:00:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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