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Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot
gabrlknght writes "Superstring theory claims the power to explain the universe, but critics say it can't be tested by experiment. Lately, though, string math has helped explain a couple of surprising experiments creating 'perfect liquids' at cosmic extremes of hot and cold. 'Both systems can be described as something like a shadow world sitting in a higher dimension. Strongly coupled particles are linked by ripples traveling through the extra dimension, says Steinberg, of Brookhaven. String math describing such ripples stems from an idea called the holographic principle, used by string theorists to describe certain kinds of black holes. A black hole's entropy depends on its surface area — as though all the information in its three-dimensional interior is stored on its two-dimensional surface. (The 'holographic' label is an allusion to ordinary holograms, where 3-D images are coated on a 2-D surface, like an emblem on a credit card.) The holographic principle has value because in some cases the math for a complex 3-D system (neglecting time) can be too hard to solve, but the equivalent 4-D math provides simpler equations to describe the same phenomena.'"
Linking just an image pretty much fails on every level.
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Once you've put Octavarium by Dream Theater on and smoked a fat joint, this will make a lot more sense.
To you, at least.
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I think you understand it just fine ;)
>Yet another physical phenomenon fits the theory of everything. How about a prediction from string theory for once?
You'll find that in String Theory 2: The Search For More Grant Money...
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
May be string theory is the biggest joke God ever played. In order to progress in science, we have to first have faith.
Science is not separate from religion; it will merely prove what religion already says is out there and how it got here
Exactly, just like Noah's flood, and how the earth was created around 6000 years ago and how people used to live for hundreds of years. Oh wait....
1178161 is prime...
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It's ok! Just stop saying that one thing, and start saying.. well.. all kinds of other thing. Use long words and treknobabble, just string it along until everyone glasses over. That's how it was named, you know. String 'em along. Yep.
You read it on the internet, it must be true!
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
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real 4d is not big enough to fit complex 3d
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