My cat is a big believer in string theory and performs experiments with it quite frequently.
"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."
“A quadrillion here, a quadrillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real universes” </Everett Dirksen>
3. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
I guess these folks just can’t accept their creator.
In the end, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.
I quite recently figured out that some of those kneeling and confessing won’t be happy to do it.
My first reaction on reading the headline was “A quadrillion permutations and zero testable hypotheses.”
And so, is the difference between mathematics and physics. In mathematics, all things are possible. More than three dimensions? No problem, just 'compactify' the ones that aren't physically possible. Infinity and singularity? No problem. Infinity lies just beyond the edge of the chart. A singularity lies just under the zero.
Physics has a problem with this. No matter how far away you look, you can't see to the end. No matter how small you compress something, you can't make go to zero. Mathematics is great. It can be used to describe physical things, and doing so mankind can make things of wonder. Spaceships, lasers, smart phones, GPS, and mag-lev trains are but a tiny few. Sometimes, though, the fit isn't quite perfect, and we have to 'compactify' the mathematical things that don't quite fit. That still doesn't mean that they are possible in the physical world. And calling time a 'dimension' doesn't make it a fourth dimension. 'Space-time' is mathematics, not physics.
In Theory many people can be lead by a string. String Theory in and of itself as proven this theory beyond any question or doubt. String Theory is therefore real and should be renamed String Fact. Dark Matter is what floats around inside the “Many” heads.
Physicists haven’t noticed that they’ve become Theologians.
Sounds a lot like the the “climate change theory”.
*ping*
My definition of string theory -— the phenomenon of the ability that any quantity of rolled up string, when placed in a drawer, manages, on its own, to end up in a tangled mass (okay...mess), which cannot be untangled, despite diligent and heroic efforts, as well as a prodigious use of very bad words.
String Theory is a made up industry to give some scientists a job instead of letting them fend like normal people on unemployment. It’s a hell of an expensive way to keep some nerds off the street. It is definitely an enterprise worthy of ZERO taxpayer dollars.