From: Ellen K. 

Every time I have to explain multidimensional arrays, I sneak out of it by
saying humans can only envision three but in the computer you can have
more.   

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:54:38 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
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>"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>news:43754503$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>> However, the strings in string theory are floating in spacetime, they
>> aren't
>>> tied down to a guitar.
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>> So what gets them excited/what does the stretching?  Pictures of Pamela
>> Anderson and Tommy Lee??
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>> Gary
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>Gee I was worried you were going to ask what the other 6 or 7 dimensions
>were ( I don't know ). The one dimensional part of s string  should be easy
>to imagine - think of Bush ( sorry couldn't resist )
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>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/resonance.html
>Just like the cotton string, the line of energy that forms the "fundamental
>string" in string theory also has resonant vibrations, as illustrated on the
>right side of the screen above. With the strings in string theory, however,
>the vibrational pattern determines what kind of particle the string is. One
>resonant pattern makes it a photon, for example, while another makes it a
>heavy particle found within the nucleus of an atom.
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>Although the fundamental string shown above is depicted as a two-dimensional
>object, the strings in string theory are one-dimensional. Furthermore, the
>mathematics describing the strings requires not one or two but 10 or 11
>dimensions. Confused? To see how mathematicians can easily work in more than
>three spatial dimensions, see Multidimensional Math.
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