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- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -2/+20Just to clarify for the lazy, the article says some computer simulations say string thoery could be correct.
- ThetaDot, on 01/22/2008, -0/+11I hope the terrorists don't find any cosmic scissors!
- SRSco, on 01/22/2008, -0/+10:::crickets:::
- patthew, on 01/22/2008, -0/+9Who cares about what the nature of our universe is? I do...
- Mikesendker, on 01/22/2008, -0/+8Watch the full nova special "The Elegant Universe". Surprisingly interesting.
Part I: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-132249334 ...
Part II: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-122002955 ...
Part III: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1736748358 ...
This sort of stuff is what makes me a Deist. - unearth, on 01/22/2008, -0/+7Hypothesis.
- ikrit2006, on 01/22/2008, -7/+14Obi-Wan: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
And xkcd said Obi-Wan was full of crap - chapium, on 01/22/2008, -1/+7Reminds me a bit of this:
http://xkcd.com/171/ - HiKevinRose, on 01/22/2008, -1/+6Dugg for "penetrate us"
- HiKevinRose, on 01/22/2008, -2/+7dugg for "penetrates us"
- sorrytheusernam, on 01/22/2008, -0/+5I enjoyed Ender's Shadow.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -4/+9string theory is almost as bad as religion. Huge, broad description that can be adapted to almost anything observed, AND theres 0 observed evidence for it at this point, 0. Physicists are spending too much of their time on this theory, they wont even be able to make any observations to confirm/deny it with LHC. It will be sad when the finally do confirm that its not true, and physicist realize they've wasted 20 years on a wild goose chase.
- mayonnaise, on 01/22/2008, -1/+5Good, but I prefer Cosmofloss.
- cosmicr, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4rigor mortis gets me hard.
- meanorphan, on 01/22/2008, -2/+6Its the Ender's Game Sequels! They were true, even if they did suck tremendously.
- ImperatorTerrae, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4I believe that physics can be defined by invisible fairies. They move everything around according to Newtons laws of physics. Prove me wrong using your computer program.
- Attilitus, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4YOUR AN IDIOT1!!11ONE!!111!1ELEVN!
- thebellmaster1x, on 01/22/2008, -1/+5Really? I don't see the creationism in this; maybe that's just my atheism talking.
- SRSco, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4Speaker for the Dead was great! The rest? Mediocre.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Zero evidence. nothing observed. nothing. disagree? find me something.
- FoxDiller, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Some people masturbate to simulations, like WoW.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Unless string theory contradicts general relativity, and I believe it doesn't in this respect, it just doesn't work that way. Einstein described the malleability of space; what you call the fabric of space is very distortable by high mass densities. The fabric is more like compressable Jello than a fabric as such. I'll skip the equations, which are truly irrelevant on Digg. The key thing is that 3D space curves in on itself in the vicinity of masses. The larger the mass, the greater the curvature. A solar mass inside of the small diameter quoted would exert truly enormous forces and space around the string would tend to curl up. The idea of a string being held taut is contrary to this because the local force on space would be hugely greater than the force exerted by the expansion of the universe.
- thebellmaster1x, on 01/22/2008, -2/+5Ah, it always reminds me of one of my favorite games.
Superstring Theory:
"A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one."
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone" - inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3quantum theory is at least based on observation. sadly we cant say the same about string theory.
- latrosicarius, on 01/22/2008, -9/+12buried for "penetrates us"
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -1/+4Of course we can't trust the computer simulation because there might be a computer program with a soul that travels the strings and can do many tasks at once and can penetrate any computer on the network, but then they find out, so they shut it down, but it jumps to some trees, and then it goes into this guys other other body and his soul goes into the megalomanic brother who was recreated, even though it's 3000 years in the future, when the computer program moved him outside and his will split him up but then his wife was like "you can leave me" so he dies because he can't control 3 bodies at once, but the computer program/soul and then....no one read the sequels to Ender's Game?
- AZTriGuy, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Speaker for the Dead was good, but the last two (Xenocide and Children of the Mind) were a bit harder to get through. They were the ones that dealt a lot with the Philotes and Philotic Rays that this article kind of sounds like. You're right, though, nothing beats Ender's Game.
- KyjL, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3So if there's a "center" to all the strings, then not only was Outlaw Star massively entertaining but also RIGHT!
- ImperatorTerrae, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2I'm digging that up for the sheer audacity of posting that on digg.
- ZenMojo, on 01/22/2008, -2/+4Dugg for spurious and half-informed attempt to tie your findings to another theory.
- mogebier, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2WATCH OUT FOR THE COMING OF THE GIANT UNIVERSE SCISSORS!!!!!!
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Are you kidding me, Speaker for the Dead was as good if not better than Ender's Game, although it seriously lacked the re-read value
- Murdats, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2True, I have little interest in string theory so I dont spend much time learning about it, ive only watched a couple of doco's to get the basics.
and I am not saying I believe this to be the case, I am just saying that with string theory being quite complex that you seem to be taking a simplistic look at what the effects of this string should be.
however you have now demonstrated that you do know what you are talking about, where your initial post included very little information (and I just like being a smartass :P) - yahoofrom, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2physics is sex. string theory is masturbation.
- Singularitarian, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2There are two lines of sequels to Ender's Game. The line that follows Bean is great.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Why, because the links were divinely broken or what?
- HiKevinRose, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3Stop digging him down, it's an actual theory.
- fwonk, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2I knew this without going to college, sure, some mushrooms were involved; but I didn't go and write an article about it.
- eighties, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Actually, no. The article discusses the possibility that 'cosmic strings' exist; cosmic strings and string theory are two (nearly) unrelated subjects, sharing only the word 'string' in their titles.
While there are some variants of string theory that predict the existence of cosmic strings, the discovery (or lack thereof) of cosmic strings would not necessarily imply the correctness or falsehood of string theory itself. - VitriolAndAngst, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2I agree with Zlorp.
Of course, we have no evidence of string theory NOT being true.
But as I mentioned, if there were super-dense strings over great distances, we'd see particles coalescing along them and glowing. So far, we haven't seen that. - Exact0, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2I'm going to agree and disagree with you Zlorp. It will be very hard to prove ANYTHING that string theory proposes. At the same time, It might have some potential to advance mathematics. So it might have some benefit, no?
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3if you're going to dig me down, you should at least respond with a link describing any observed evidence found for string theory.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2quantum physics isn't bad...string theory is pseudoscience in the eyes of many physicists.
- mitchlourens, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2your links broke :(
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Turtles all the way down!
/I like turtles - Bleahdom, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1If only we could "favourite" comments.
- Daggerfall, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1"Cosmic strings are predicted to have extraordinary amounts of mass - perhaps as much as the mass of the Sun - packed into each metre of a tube whose width is less a billion billionth of the size of an atom."
that's like....holy ***** - Sananda, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Not yet, When LHC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider is online it may point us to the right way, since String theories says as strings vibrate they can create micro black holes.
- DukeMojo, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Isn't the article about some sort of evidence? Or did I read it wrongly?
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