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To: spunkets; Alamo-Girl; Doctor Stochastic; marron; PatrickHenry
The fifth only appears to unite EM, gravity and account for most of the particles in the std model. This 5d construction results in mass appearing in the 4d space, unites EM and gravity and accounts for most of the particles in the std model with limits of... =>

Well gee, spunkets, I'd be pretty impressed if that's all (!!!) it could do.... Why so blase about it?

You wrote:

It's ~10/11d string theory, w, or w/o supersym. I think 26d is required to account for all the particles. Some fermions are missing with 10/11d.

What I'm about to say isn't exactly a "scientific observation" at all; but here goes anyway.

Things that are overly complicated are usually not beautiful. Beauty is spare, elegant, and above all truthful and just. Beauty is a beacon for the human mind. Coming up with one dimension per particle seems like a case of nature doing it the hard way, a tad kludgy to me. It just seems too complicated to be beautiful, in any classical sense.... There are mathematicians who believe that if the mathematics isn't beautiful, then it's probably not truthful either. Einstein, Dirac, Godel come to mind here....

Hey, FWIW. it's late; I'm tired; and I wish you a very good night, spunkets. Thank you so much for writing!

1,781 posted on 08/07/2005 9:39:32 PM PDT by betty boop (Nature loves to hide. -- Heraclitus)
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To: betty boop
Things that are overly complicated are usually not beautiful. Beauty is spare, elegant, and above all truthful and just. Beauty is a beacon for the human mind. Coming up with one dimension per particle seems like a case of nature doing it the hard way, a tad kludgy to me. It just seems too complicated to be beautiful, in any classical sense.... There are mathematicians who believe that if the mathematics isn't beautiful, then it's probably not truthful either. Einstein, Dirac, Godel come to mind here....

Very well said. Thank you!!!

1,786 posted on 08/08/2005 6:37:10 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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