From: "Robert Comer" 

> I have a hard time with fundamental strings being described as a loop when
> they are one dimensional.

Think of a mobius loop. (only really)  It's actually quite logical.

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Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Interesting stuff.  Thanks for the links.  Not sure I buy it however.  I'm
> not persuaded there are 10 dimensions just by the fact that mathematicians
> can create formula's that "supposedly" describe more than 3 spatial
> dimensions.  You could create lots of formulas that purport to describe
> things that don't really exist.  Sort of like statistics can describe lots
> of things that aren't true.
>
> I have a hard time with fundamental strings being described as a loop when
> they are one dimensional.  Also, how long are one dimensional strings and
> are they all the same size?
>
> If string theory is correct then in a sense all of the universe is a song
> played by God.
>
> A last thought:  Just because things with more energy have more mass and
> vice versa doesn't necessarily mean that a string with a higher
> vibrational
> frequency has more mass.  Look at the cotton string at the link.  As its
> frequency increases from 1/2 wave to 1 and 1/2 waves its mass wouldn't
> change....right?
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:43754b19{at}w3.nls.net...
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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.
>> >>
>> >
>> > So what gets them excited/what does the stretching?  Pictures of Pamela
>> > Anderson and Tommy Lee??
>> >
>> > 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 )
>>
>> 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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