To: shrinkermd
My theory is that any N theories can be "unified" by postulating a new universal theory with N + 1 dimensions.
22 posted on
12/10/2004 8:07:06 AM PST by
palmer
("Oh you heartless gloaters")
To: palmer
Actually you're very close to the latest two iterations of string theory: "M-theory" (M could stand for matrix, the next to last iteration, or membrane). The string theorists argue that because four or five of their attempts approximate each other in certain limits, they must be aspects of a single as yet undiscovered theory. (The limiting arguments are non-rigorous, not usually a consideration in physics if experiments can be appealed to, but they can't in this case, and the overarching argument is completely bogus: quantum mechanics approximates classical mechanics in a certain kind of limit, and this is not evidence of a missing theory which both approximate which is the 'real theory'>)
24 posted on
12/10/2004 8:13:10 AM PST by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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