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To: editor-surveyor

>>>Show us the philosophical component of any branch of Mathematics, or Physics, or Chemistry?

String Theory.
String theory is a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that are the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. For this reason, string theories are able to avoid problems associated with the presence of pointlike particles in a physical theory. Study of string theories has revealed that they require not just strings but other objects, variously including points, membranes, and higher-dimensional objects.
It is not yet known whether string theory is able to describe a universe with the precise collection of forces and matter that we observe, nor how much freedom to choose those details the theory will allow. No string theory has yet made falsifiable predictions that would allow it to be experimentally tested.


68 posted on 09/27/2005 2:06:09 PM PDT by NC28203
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To: NC28203

When something is not known in the absolute sense, that does not necessarily make it philosophy. If you believe it to be so, please demonstrate.


69 posted on 09/27/2005 2:10:37 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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