A community portal about String theory with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: String theory is a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects rather than the zero...
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A community portal about String theory with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: String theory is a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects rather than the zero-dimensional points that are the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. String theorists are attempting to adjust the Standard Model by removing the assumption in quantum mechanics that particles are point-like. By removing this assumption and replacing the point-like particles with strings, it is hoped that string theory will develop into a sensible quantum theory of gravity. Moreover, string theory appears to be able to "unify" the known natural forces by describing them with the same set of equations.
"Not even wrong" - The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics the title of Columbia mathematical physicist Peter Woit's new book, was Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli's ultimate put-down for any theory he considered wide of the mark. The put down was adopted by Woit to describe string theory, the fashionable quantum-physics Swiss Army knife that has exploded in popularity the past 20 years, covering elementary particle physics, cosmology, and even... Read Full Story
“As particles pass through a magnetic field produced by superconducting magnets, this detector has the ability to accurately track them to the width of a human hair,” CERN said.
With continuous budget cuts affecting NASA and the scientific community of the United States, the world watches as 111 nations finish the last piece of an ambitious experiment which will unlock 96% of the Universe’s secrets. With precision team work and sheer dedication, this project has shown what... Read Full Story
Theoretical Physicists Develop Test for String Theory . 'For decades, many scientists have criticized string theory, pointing out that it does not make predictions by which it can be tested. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and The University of Texas at Austin have developed a test of string theory. Their test, described in the Jan. 26 Physical Review Letters , involves measurements of how elusive high-energy particles scatter during... Read Full Story
Stringscape . ‘In its near 40-year history, string theory has gone from a theory of hadrons to a theory of everything to, possibly, a theory of nothing. Indeed, modern string theory is not even a theory of strings but one of higher-dimensional objects called branes. Matthew Chalmers attempts to disentangle the immense theoretical framework that is string theory, and reveals a world of mind-bending ideas, tangible successes and daunting challenges – most of which, perhaps surprisingly, are... Read Full Story
The theory of Three Dimensions of Time (3DT) achieves quark confinement by leaving out the free-quark terms from the Lagrangian. How can free quarks exist in the world if there are no free-quark terms in the Lagrangian to describe them? In 3DT the free-quark terms have to be zero. String theory does not have a method for producing quark confinement. The standard model does, but it requires supercomputers for its calculations. 3DT's method is much simpler than this because it requires no... Read Full Story
There is a precedent for Three Dimensions of Time (3DT) . Adding dimensions of time has worked before - when Einstein added one dimension of time to the three of space. 3DT finishes the job Einstein started of adding dimensions of time to make time symmetrical to space. There are three dimensions of time because there are three dimensions of space. This is in contrast to string theory, which was invented to explain the strong interactions. Here it lost out to QCD (quantum chromodynamics... Read Full Story
T his article is about wonderfully silly things I have been doing in my kitchen now that a certain (dis-)organization doesn't want me to be a chemist for them any more. Well, at least part of the (dis-)organization doesn't seem to want me. You can take the chemist out of the chemical plant, but you can't stop him from inventing with chemicals from other plants: Food 1. MSG: Managing Sour Grapes T he best way to handle sour grapes is to eat them with good grapes alternating between the two OR... Read Full Story
The theory of Three Dimensions of Time (3DT) explains ten parameters of the standard Model. These include the masses of the electron, muon and tau, the masses of the three neutrinos, the masses of the W and Z, and the fine structure constant. No other theory, including String Theory, explains these parameters. The theory of 3DT can be found here . Read Full Story
When the LHC does not find the Higgs particle or supersymmetric particles, physicists will be forced to abandon String Theory and the Higgs mechanism. The theory of three dimensions of time (3DT) will be virtually the only theory consistent with these results. You can find 3DT here . Read Full Story
3DT is finished. The theory was completed and appeared in 2005, the 100th anniversary of the appearance of Einstein's three famous papers of 1905. String Theory has not been completed and there is no end in sight. Read Full Story
