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Subject: Super String Theorm
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Poll: Does any one know what that means  [closed]
yes:  38%
(6 Votes)
no:  19%
(3 Votes)
kinda:  12%
(2 Votes)
no idea:  12%
(2 Votes)
huh:  0%
(0 Votes)
???????:  19%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 16

One approach (for closed strings) to what you are asking is to parameterize all of the Rieman surfaces and all of their metrics and then form an integral over all on them. This is what modulii spaces are for and the involve things like "Siegel spaces," which are funny infinited dimensional manifolds with Hilber Schmidt norms, Teichmuller spaces (covering spaces of said Riemann surfaces), Kahaler metrics, and diffeomorphism invariance. The idea is that "pertubative string theory" sums over a finite number of Riemann surfaces so if we could integrate over all of them, and over everything else while we are at it, we would have a "non-perturbative" theory

  • 06.11.2004 2:42 PM PDT
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Does any body know what that means?

[Edited on 6/11/2004 7:43:01 PM]

  • 06.11.2004 2:45 PM PDT
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Hello.............................anyone there?

  • 06.11.2004 2:49 PM PDT
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I think it means "Bumping your own thread"

[Edited on 6/11/2004 2:50:52 PM]

  • 06.11.2004 2:50 PM PDT
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Super strings are two-dimensional "strings" that vibrate. They are believed to be the basic construct of the universe.

The earth is to the universe as atoms are to the earth.
Atoms are to the earth as super strings are to atoms. (to give you an idea of their size)

  • 06.11.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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I thought string thing had to do with dimensons and stuff.

  • 06.11.2004 2:55 PM PDT
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It does, of course.

  • 06.11.2004 2:57 PM PDT
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String Theory bridges quantum theory and Einstein’s theory of Relativity. It’s very exciting stuff, especially if it can be proven.

  • 06.11.2004 3:16 PM PDT
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Unfortunately there are about five or six contradicting string theories, but all of them seem correct.

What we need is a unified theory.

  • 06.11.2004 3:21 PM PDT
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Dur Wil Zur Macht

Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose

  • 06.11.2004 3:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: ObbiQuiet

What we need is a unified theory.


We could just clone Einstein and put him to work.

  • 06.11.2004 3:27 PM PDT
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No more German

  • 06.11.2004 3:28 PM PDT
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You started it.

  • 06.11.2004 3:31 PM PDT

In the words of Fast Show guy, or my Physics teacher: It's a load of old bollocks.
Having said that, Quantum Café dude was a laugh.

  • 06.11.2004 4:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
In the words of Fast Show guy, or my Physics teacher: It's a load of old bollocks.
Having said that, Quantum Café dude was a laugh.
Huh?

String theories mostly go over my head. I just don't get what people mean by "rolled up", which for some reason is the phrase everyone keeps using... You'd think there were other analogies. I dunno. I was fine until someone suggested that other dimensions are "within" the one's we're used to grasping. I always thought of dimensions as mutually perpendicular axes of movement or definition, so I don't see how they can be "within" or "outside" each other. Could someone here explain what's meant? I don't see how any positional relational term in our language can apply accurately.

  • 06.11.2004 5:24 PM PDT

This should help. The guy's a berk, but it still has some interesting stuff in it.

  • 06.11.2004 5:30 PM PDT
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Thanks, I'll be back later... By the way, what's a berk?

  • 06.11.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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that's it! I've had enough of this 'learning' for tonight. I'm going to got rot my brain/mind/rest of my body with some LDL cholesterol snacks, and sit extremely close to the tv in the dark.... while eating my snacks.

  • 06.11.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Unfortunately there are about five or six contradicting string theories, but all of them seem correct.

What we need is a unified theory.


Isn't that always what happens in modern physics. No one ever agrees 100% with anyone else.

  • 06.11.2004 6:10 PM PDT
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I don't think knowing this is gonna help anyone get laid.......
Posted by: Terminus
One approach (for closed strings) to what you are asking is to parameterize all of the Rieman surfaces and all of their metrics and then form an integral over all on them. This is what modulii spaces are for and the involve things like "Siegel spaces," which are funny infinited dimensional manifolds with Hilber Schmidt norms, Teichmuller spaces (covering spaces of said Riemann surfaces), Kahaler metrics, and diffeomorphism invariance. The idea is that "pertubative string theory" sums over a finite number of Riemann surfaces so if we could integrate over all of them, and over everything else while we are at it, we would have a "non-perturbative" theory

  • 06.11.2004 6:13 PM PDT

By the way, what's a berk?
A British term for an idiot.

  • 06.11.2004 6:15 PM PDT
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Berk?

  • 06.11.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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I've been reading mostly about cosmology, so I've missed much of this good stuff. It all looks at fundamental stuff, but string theories aren't easily accessible. The idea of all physical stuff being epiphenomena of harmonious jigglings of spacetime is interesting, but the maths are beyond most of us. I still haven't found any good introductory material. The PBS site linked to in goweb's post doesn't offer much elaboration beyond what most of us have read.
We can only explore this realm with mathematical models, so skeptics disregard the whole science just because we can't build atom smashers big enough to study it, and the theorists exploring the possibilities mostly keep to themselves 'cause most of us can't understand much...

Posted by: klurejr
I don't think knowing this is gonna help anyone get laid.......
Posted by: Terminus
One approach (for closed strings) to what you are asking is to parameterize all of the Rieman surfaces and all of their metrics and then form an integral over all on them. This is what modulii spaces are for and the involve things like "Siegel spaces," which are funny infinited dimensional manifolds with Hilber Schmidt norms, Teichmuller spaces (covering spaces of said Riemann surfaces), Kahaler metrics, and diffeomorphism invariance. The idea is that "pertubative string theory" sums over a finite number of Riemann surfaces so if we could integrate over all of them, and over everything else while we are at it, we would have a "non-perturbative" theory
Lol, there's more to life than getting laid and eating artery-clogging snacks.

  • 06.11.2004 10:07 PM PDT
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thats all worthless stuff that u would never need in life

  • 06.11.2004 10:11 PM PDT
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I don't know but I know someone who does. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH Obi is too smart

  • 06.11.2004 10:15 PM PDT