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Tenth Dimension Explained
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So, time travel, the tesseract, dimensional jumping, and alternate universes all rolled into one handy explaination. Cool.
However, some math-types are proposing that quantum strings will require 11 dimensional math to understand, so on this model, where will they go?
However, some math-types are proposing that quantum strings will require 11 dimensional math to understand, so on this model, where will they go?
It mentioned that the 11th dimension is time. Or did the 11 dimension math not include time?FoxyKaye said:
Also, 0-10 is 11 numbers. 11 numbers for 11 dimensions
Ahh, my head is starting to hurt.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5058672332658910022
Found this in their forum which was really interesting also. I don't know how credible these theories are but they are intriguing.
Found this in their forum which was really interesting also. I don't know how credible these theories are but they are intriguing.
wow...never thought of that like that...but don't forget it's just a theory!!! it wasn't THAT hard to understand....and makes some strong arguments...
it wasn't THAT hard to understand....and makes some strong arguments...
SamIchi said:Damn it stopped at 6. I wanna see the rest...
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Just watched the rest. That's mind boggling. Is there any validity to that? Science people?
As a physicist, I got to the eighth dimension before I started to feel like this was too much BS. String theory (if you believe in it) does seem to be suggesting that there are eleven spatial dimensions. That is to say, we perceive that there are three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. The latest variants of string theory assert that there are ten spatial dimensions and one time dimension (however, this number is somewhat in flux, as it has gone from 6s+1t to 25s+1t). While there is room to argue that one or more of the additional dimensions would contain probabilistic variations on our universe, string theory certainly does not assert such a thing.
Now, there is an additional issue that I feel compelled to bring up. String theory has started to come under some criticism lately. It has had a twenty+ year run of being a theory that has no experiment evidence to back it up. Even the phenomenologists who have tried to come up with experiments that might hint at truth in string theory (i.e. micro-gravity experiments) have not had results that offer any confirmation of the theory. Further, at this point, we cannot even conceive of experiments that would possibly offer true evidence that string theory is a valid theory. These facts have lead a growing number of physicists, myself included, to argue that string theory has had to much of the spotlight, in terms of funding, and other alternative theories deserve more attention.
There are currently some very interesting theories that are alternatives to string theory that do not assert anything other than a 3s+1t universe, and they are starting to make predictions that should be measurable by experiments that will be coming online within the next couple of years. These results could, potentially, blow string theory and higher dimensions out of the water, so to speak...
SamIchi said:
Haven't had a chance to watch that interview yet. It might be pointed out, though, that that interview is over 15 years old...
In any event, I'll let you know when I've looked at it.
Snowy_River said:Haven't had a chance to watch that interview yet. It might be pointed out, though, that that interview is over 15 years old...
In any event, I'll let you know when I've looked at it.
I didn't watch the whole thing it's like 2 hrs. But the first 20 mins I thought were intersting. It's more about evolution.
After G said:It mentioned that the 11th dimension is time. Or did the 11 dimension math not include time?
Also, 0-10 is 11 numbers. 11 numbers for 11 dimensions
Ahh, my head is starting to hurt.
But Zero isnt a dimension, it just explains the concept of the point.