[PatrickHenry]

Something to mull over the weekind.

[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

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[Red Badger]

I'll be pondering the string theory of bikinis at the beach.......What would happen if I pulled that string?........

[mlc9852]

So string theory is back? Cool!

[mnehring]

bump for later..

[The_Victor]

Brane Decay

I thought that was pretty much a democRAT problem?

[mfulstone]

IMHO, Time cannot exist in any other form than a closed loop. That would mean that tomorrow is yesterday, too.

At whatever point in time the universe began, it already had a complete past and future.

Now to complicate matters - every time change occurs at any point, it affects the whole loop.

[VadeRetro]

“We propose that the universe, before expansion, was an unstable brane that decayed into innumerable string-loops to form the universe as we now know it.”

Yes, yes! But that's the trivial part. Why was the brane unstable? Was this your brane on drugs? Creationism?

[RoadTest]

If "scientists" ever got their speculation right, there wouldn't be any new theories.

[PatrickHenry]

Here's a link to the abstract in Physical Review Letters, which isn't very informative. Getting the article itself requires a subscription:
Brane Decay and an Initial Spacelike Singularity.

[LibWhacker]

Hoo, boy... Okay, how big was this brane before it decomposed? As big, or nearly as big, as the present universe -- or are they sticking with the mathematical point beginnings of the universe and superluminal expansion? Why was the brane unstable? Exactly HOW did it ("it" presumably being pure "unstable" space but not matter) decompose into an innumerable bunch of tiny closed strings (i.e., actual matter), etc.? Not annoyed at this new theory. Just fascinated and awed at it all.

[King Prout]

this stuff always makes my head hurt

[Wiz]

ping