simply not enough explanation the narator or whoever was incharge to relating this info to a layman failed miserably, I mean they had me confused with their simple interpretations of our known 3D universe :icon27:
I kinda get where they are going with this, even though at some point (I believe it was 7) it seems that they retort to lower dimentions to give explanation.
anyway wake me up when there's an article on this IN ENGLISH.
Imagining ten dimensions
bitWISE wrote:I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.
String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.
Well, I watched the flash clip, and I had no problem getting it once I got over their description of the 7th dimension.
But what you describe, after trying to think about it, sounds more mind-bending to me than the simplified stuff in the link.
Makes me want to read about M-Theory -- I never knew it was postulated that our dimension grew to its current size/prominence due to the big bang's effects on string vibrations.
So, before the big bang, did the other 7 dimensions have a more profound effect on the first 3?
Has there been any speculation on how changes/irregularities can be created in the other dimensions now, that would affect our world in a real/tangible way?
I'm not an expert at this but IIRC...R00k wrote:bitWISE wrote:I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.
String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.
Well, I watched the flash clip, and I had no problem getting it once I got over their description of the 7th dimension.
But what you describe, after trying to think about it, sounds more mind-bending to me than the simplified stuff in the link.
Makes me want to read about M-Theory -- I never knew it was postulated that our dimension grew to its current size/prominence due to the big bang's effects on string vibrations.
So, before the big bang, did the other 7 dimensions have a more profound effect on the first 3?
Has there been any speculation on how changes/irregularities can be created in the other dimensions now, that would affect our world in a real/tangible way?
The basis behind string theory is that the smallest possible object is a planck sized string, as opposed to an infinity small point. These strings have specific vibrational patterns. Each pattern results in the creation of one of the elementary particles we know today (such as the boson, photon, graviton, etc). Each spacial dimension gives the vibrational pattern of the string more freedom to move (a one dimensional string could only vibrate left-right but a two dimensional string could vibrate up-down, left-right and so on). Under M-theory, it is said that it takes 10 spacial dimensions to account for all the possible patterns needed to represent our universe.
The size of the dimensions has a huge impact on our world as the properties of a vibrating string would be altered. But there is also an inverse proportionality. Meaning that if the diameter of the dimension was 100, the energy of the string would be equal to a string that existed in a dimension with a radius of 0.001. One implication of this proportionality is that one could argue that our universe is incredibly small and shrinking as opposed to being enermous and inflating.
My point about the link is that he mentions the term string theory but his explanations aren't rooted in string theory at all. What he seems to be saying is that there are 7 time dimensions and 3 spacial dimensions and that goes completely against what string theory has established.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_the ... dimensions