Caramonmajere posted about this Flash movie a few days ago, and I came across it just now while randomly surfing around the Member site. It's an advertisement for a book; but more interesting than that, it contains a simplified explanation of the eleven dimensions of string theory. (Click on "Imagining the Tenth Dimension".)
I hadn't really delved into string theory before, nor why they reckon that there have to be eleven dimensions, so I found it quite interesting. Check it out!
(Yes, Caramonmajere, I'm stealing your content. Bite me. ;-))
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 Jul 16 2006, 4:11 am
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Jul 16 2006, 4:30 am
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KamiKaziSamuri
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I'm going to have to watch that a couple more times. :/
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Indeed.
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That is painful to think about.
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;_;
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Painful, indeed.
Yet quite interesting. o.o I've never thought of that much .. euh .. infinity. | |
I thought it was rather interesting. I still don't know why they think there are 11 dimensions. If all possibilites are kept in the 10th, thene the 11th can't exist. Everything resides in the 10th o.o
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Woah, awesome presentation. At about the 6th dimension it got trippy, but I started to understand it more as it went on. I've watched it twice and I still don't understand completely, but that's so fascinating. We can theoretically understand the 10th dimension, yet we're still a long way from even being able to travel freely in the 4th, 5th, and 6th, if that's even possible for us. Maybe if we invented a microscope a few thousand times stronger to see strings ( if they exist ) then it might make more sense. Meh, just thinking aloud.
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WTTF
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Maybe if we invented a microscope a few thousand times stronger to see strings ( if they exist ) then it might make more sense. Meh, just thinking aloud. But that's the thing... a even with an incredibly powerful microscope, we wouldn't be able to see the higher dimensions at all. Just like the flatlander can't see our third dimension, because he's a two-dimensional creature. So why do they think there is an 11th? That confused me as well, but I think it's because they're counting from zero. I think. WTTF What does the extra T stand for? =P | |
Yeah, 11 dimensions is counting 0-10...
Dimension 0 is just a point, 1 is a line (length), 2 is a plane (length and width), 3 is space (length, width, and depth), 4 is time, etc... I love the fractal nature of the theory... It repeats itself in cycles of increasing scope... | |
I want a machine that can go to different areas in the 10th, then <.<
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I don't think that's possible...
As other universes would have other physical laws, we most likely couldn't even exist in them, and thus, no traveling to them... | |
BigBoiD, there's only one point in the 10th dimension. It holds all possibilities for all universes, so you can't really travel around it if there's only one point. Unless you meant something else......
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"But that's the thing... a even with an incredibly powerful microscope, we wouldn't be able to see the higher dimensions at all. Just like the flatlander can't see our third dimension, because he's a two-dimensional creature."
I didn't mean to see the dimensions. But just as starting proof that this speculation isn't all bullshit. I'm not saying it is, just that string theory and knowing whether or not there are strings started all the modern multi dimensional theories. | |
What Crispy was saying is that these "strings" exist as higher-dimensional objects, and as such we can never see them, even with a superpowered microscope...
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Oh thanks for clarifying
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Crispy said:
What does the extra T stand for? =P T for Time, duh! | |