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- scootscr15, on 02/12/2008, -2/+41"It's a bad practice to use sneering and ridicule to block unconventional ideas. It's a very bad idea to erect near-insurmountable barriers against all seemingly irrational ideas, because doing so will discard the occasional Galileos and Arrheniuses along with the large hoards of crackpots. Or in other words, never ridicule things which you've haven't even bothered to investigate." -William Beaty
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -4/+38HUUUUUGE defeat for flat earthers
Huge - Xiol, on 02/12/2008, -6/+34This article has practically no useful information or content. Why the hell has this made front page? Buried.
- superharmonic, on 02/12/2008, -0/+19To the graphic artist: "OK so we need a three dimensional rendering of an eleventh dimension exploding black hole to be presented on a two dimensional plane."
- Daz3, on 02/12/2008, -0/+17Of course, that is the idea of scientific experiment; however, it could just as easily corroborate the theory. The only truth is that we will not know until the experiment is performed.
For the moment we can be content that the effort put into string theory has led to mathematical breakthroughs as opposed to being fruitless. - sockpuppets, on 02/12/2008, -5/+21It's like staring into God's Goatse.
- Anpheus, on 02/12/2008, -0/+14And they had just recently come to grips with a 3-dimensional world! Boy are they in for a surprise.
- Lyianis, on 02/12/2008, -3/+17Time IS the Einsteinian 4th dimension.
At the same time there is no set definition for the 4th dimension, as each of several different theories tends to have their own or slightly differing definitions of. - rhinocero, on 02/12/2008, -2/+15They will once they have the Large Hadron Collider.
- sabach, on 02/12/2008, -0/+12The most valuable experiments are those designed to disprove current theory.
- TritonX, on 02/12/2008, -1/+13And you would understand them ?
- droopypooper, on 02/12/2008, -5/+17my cat's breath smells like cat food.
- Encablossa, on 02/12/2008, -0/+10In terms of excuses that's slightly less credible than "No my dear, I rubbed lipstick on my collar to test it before buying it for you. Which I then forgot to do while ruffling my hair and finding this strange woman in my bed."
wut - nospinhere, on 02/12/2008, -0/+10I'll tell you what, you can start calling anti-string people propagandist when after 35 years of research by almost every single theoretical physicist out there you can come up with an equation that can predict observable values without a 10^10th unit error.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -4/+14What a sec, you are comparing the results of the world's finest physicists with the crazy 2000 year old ramblings of goat herders and hasheesh heads?
You're stretching it pretty far there don;t you think? - imbatman05, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8Time is the 4th dimension in a universe with 3 spacial dimensions. String theory proposes 10 spacial dimensions and 1 time dimension.
- Encablossa, on 02/12/2008, -4/+12Such poorly written article, I couldn't get past the first paragraph.
- Murdats, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7this is whats known as a hypothesis.
an untested hypothesis, no one believes it is true (if they have sense), they only entertain the possibility that it may be true.
however it is science if you can come up with a possible test to disprove the theory, even if the test is impossible to carry out with out limited resources. - EarlOfLade, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7and which is the reason why you are flipping burgers and not re-programming the Hubble for the next observation slot allocated to you.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -3/+10100+ years of scientific research
OR
A book that says, "just trust me on this one." A book that says, "God created everything in 6 days."
Come on... - MYarms, on 02/12/2008, -2/+8This writer is obviously not fond of Stephen Hawking. Way to cry like a little baby. I hope you feel better. Ass.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -4/+10LHC won't be proving string theory. It is aimed to kill string theory.
- sockpuppets, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7Yeah, what he said!
- zeusthemoose, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6What on earth has string theory ever done to you? There is plenty of mathematical evidence to support string theory. It provides a every elegant explanation of the universe. Its hard to believe that nature would unify three of the four forces and not unify all of them. String theory gets around the pesky quantum foam when you go to lengths smaller than plancks length. It provides an elegant mechanism for unifying all of the forces found in nature. Sure, it may not be possible to conduct a test to confirm string theory yet, but in order to confirm that strings exist you would need a accelerator several billion times as powerful as even the LHC. If string theory is not the unified filed theory, then what is?
- Zephik, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6You only think that your cats breath smells like cat food, but does it really? Does the sense of smell even exist? What if no one was around to smell it? Would it still smell? How would you know? How DO you know? We know nothing! NOTHING!
YOU ARE THE ONE!
...whoop, sorry, got carried away there at the end. :P - active1x0, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5"How about I just throw a bunch of ***** together in a starfield generator and you pay me $1000 for it?"
- TritonX, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5Maybe because they want to preserve something they have called credibility.
- lateralminded, on 02/12/2008, -2/+6A rather poor article on an incredibly fascinating subject. I'm still stuck at understanding 10 dimensions, this article gives me nothing to get to 11. If you want to grasp the first 10 go here => http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5I don't think we care how you 'call it'. In pretty much the same way I don't care about people that call sports phone ins.
Just because you have a voice doesn't mean someone is listening. - buddamus, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5You have to find and test all the wrong answers before you can find the correct ones
- reuscel, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4To me, the following comic summed up string theory pretty succinctly:
http://xkcd.com/171/ - noumuon, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4actually, a dimension is a "direction" of measurement. since time is a measurement in differing frames of reference and not a universal constant, it is considered the fourth dimension.
- imbatman05, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4I've said this already here, but if' you're interested, time is the 4th dimension in a universe with 3 spacial dimensions. String theory proposes 10 spacial dimensions and 1 time dimension, hence 11 dimensions.
- noumuon, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4really? newton shot a cannon around the earth to put it in orbit like his drawings showed? REALLY?
- Zephik, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Well, more so that by finding wrong answers (intentionally or not), one can only assume that you will eventually find a right answer sooner or later, rather than Intentionally seeking the wrong answers first and then proceeding onto finding the right answers later.
I think it makes much more sense my way, but you go ahead and keep on doing what your doing. :)
I'm only joking by the way, I'm not actually that big of a jerk. I know what you meant, so I dugg you up anyways. :) - MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Truth > Simple.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4When I read the title and glanced at the picture, I could've swore it was goatse....*shudder*
- zeusthemoose, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3I think you have clearly shown your blatant ignorance of reality with your statements. Congratulations sir, you have not a clue.
- Justavian, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3People are always screaming about the lack of testability in string theory. But string theory DOES make predictions that CAN be tested. What about supersymmetry? What about the evaporation rates and altered mass requirements of microscopic black holes? When the LHC comes online, we'll be able to test things like that. Granted, detecting supersymmetry will not immediately "prove" that there are tiny vibrating strings as the smallest unit of mass or energy - but it would certainly show that theory is at least on the right track.
- Skuzzlbut, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2String theory fell almost on its face without the addition of Supergravity principles; I just can't wait for people to start to assert QM assumptions and really try to see if there is a fit
- RogaDanar, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Could someone explain the the 5th dimension to me first?...sheesh.
Nigel Tufnel: "These go to eleven." - starmanjones, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2i think the problem here is with discrimination. you have to be able to... good science almost always starts with known facts and using imagination and intellect project past what we know in order to design experiments to discover more. every fact that we discover leaves many more ideas dead in the road because they were wrong. being wrong in the process of science is a good thing. its why science works.
its nature is about freedom to think in ways others don't. its about pushing knowledge and humanity to new better places.
religion... is about conformity. about rejecting facts that threaten its validity. in its pure form its about remaining exactly the same forever. the fact that i hasn't and can't justify static knowledge is evidence that its false and wrong.
you gotta learn to discriminate better. religion and science are opposites because religion has decided thats the way they want it. personally i don't care about someone's private beliefs as long as they keep them quite and out of my way and out of science. - phenolholic, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2string theory deals with theorems untestable by our current testabilities. just because we're incapable of testing, doesn't mean it doesn't occur. general and special relativity remained thought experiments for about half a decade until we finally (barely) had the capacity to test it. at the heart of string theory, it deals with matter taking on the properties of a string, being able to oscillate harmonically. i don't find this surprising since until recently it was realized matter exists as particles and waves both, a duality, consequently leading to matter being energy. the mathematics that unfolds string theory suggests 11 dimensions, and just because we can't perceive it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, mathematics doesn't lie, and our current model encompasses time as the fourth and we still don't forsee it in the realms of 3 cartesian space, so discrediting 11 dimensions is analogous to discrediting time.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Yes, while unobservered the cat exists as a linear superposition of both alive and dead states; But once observed (smelling implies observation), the 'wave function collapses' into a fixed state.
- HousePlaya, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Math doesn't lie.
- Bilabrin, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2From what I understand, 11 dimensional string hypothesis is based upon the Casmir effect which is measurable and predicts vacuume and zero-point energy.
What if interpretation of what the Casmir effect is is fundamentally flawed and/or misinterpreted. It just seems to be to be a blaring point of potential failure in the base of string hypothesis. - diggitydoc, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2exactly, article = pointless... buried!
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3I want chocolate microscopes.
- gutenpress, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1That picture is like an interstellar goatse.
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