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4335088 No.4335088 [Reply] [Original]

This explains everything.

>> No.4335099

Oh fuck me I hate it when Hipster science fags learn about the "multiverse" and how to imagine the fourth dimension.
Fuck you Brian Greene.

>> No.4335105
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4335105

>>4335099
youre the only hipster I see

>> No.4335110

>>4335088
>>4335099
So it's been like how many decades since this theory came out.
Is the string shit a dead end or not?

>> No.4335115

>>4335099
AHAHAHAHAHA JUST HOW HIGH DO YOU EVEN HAVE TO BE JUST TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT........

>> No.4335122

>>4335088
isnt this the faggot from the documentals? I loved when he tried to explain quantum stuff to a dog. it was cute.

>> No.4335273

>>4335110
Just check the daily papers on Arxiv, strings is very much alive, AdS-CFT is a hot topic now for different fields of physics.

>> No.4335282

>>4335099
>I cant imagine shapes in the 4th dimension
Well i guess no one can.

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4335300

>2012
>strings

>> No.4335305

>mention strings
>all of /sci/ derps out because they don't understand it

Stay classy.

>> No.4335306
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>>4335305
>Doesn't understand it
Ha.

>> No.4335307

>>4335306
Thank you for proving my point.

>> No.4335406

>>4335307
The point of that comic isn't just that nobody understands string theory, but that it's bad science. At most, it's nice math but it makes no new predictions. Huge steps in physics like Maxwell's eqns, general relativity and electroweak unification had definite falsifiable predictions. Without that, we're just playing games on paper.

And string theory is just games on paper at this point.

>> No.4335438

>>4335406
But do you think an ultimate answer is going to be testable? Nothing says that enough data could possibly exist to explain everything. At some point our explanation might have to use only circumstantial evidence.

>> No.4335449

String theory is not even wrong.

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4335464

>>4335449
Mah nigga

>> No.4335465

>>4335305
string theory is not falsifiable. Where is the derp?
>buttfustrated string theorist detected
enjoy your years of useless education in a dying field

>> No.4335471

what makes the strings string?

>> No.4335487
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4335487

Why strings?

>> No.4335541

>>4335406
Nah, string theories can do quite a bit. For example, you could try naming a framework which unifies both the standard model as well as GR.

Also, strings have found their way into high-energy particle physics via AdS/CFT for strong coupling field theories, which we can access by a gravity theory - this is otherwise near impossible to do analytically, see for example Sakai-Sugimoto meson spectra. Strings can give us meson spectra with little num. computational effort, while lattice QCD requires massive parallel computing.

But sure, keep hating on things you don't even remotely have an idea of.

>> No.4335553

Sounds like another religion brewing.

>> No.4335565

>>4335541
>you could try naming a framework which unifies both the standard model as well as GR.
loop gauge theories

but yes, no one on here seems to know anything more that "sting vibrate hyr!" and then think they can have an opinion on it.

>> No.4335568

so how did they get to the *conclusion* that shit is made of string? i mean, really, how? something to do with fluctuations or something like that?

>> No.4335571

>>4335568
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_string_theory

>> No.4335584

>>4335568
math

>> No.4335719

so how is string theory and less scientific than the 'dark matter' that get thrown at everything our understanding of gravity can't understand?