Are string theorists… braneiacs?
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Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Gork@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He should discuss it on TAWK TUAH
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Btw, does string theory consider zero point fluctuations?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
What do you mean? Zero point energy comes up as a result of quantum mechanics, why would it be ignored?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Guess i need to refresh that knowledge.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Zero point energy is the stuff Syndrome uses to toss Mister Incredible around, right?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
If we ever find the cosmic strings, I wanna see someone plucking them to play Stairway to Heaven.
BB84@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Unfortunately cosmic string and string theory are completely different things.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_string says
Not to be confused with String, the subject of String Theory.
MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.ml 4 months ago
What kind of string we talking about? Nylon? Kevlar?
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 months ago
fair
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
not with current technology.
but as it sometimes happen, we might find a way a couple hundred years from now, who knows. maybe even a practical use of the knowledge.
maybe string theory was flawed all along and we come to understand the universe a whole another way.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The same was true of relativity
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The relativistic model was demonstrated to better describe the transit of Venus than Newtonian mechanics. It had been quickly proposed as a good test, was generally accepted as the crucial experiment, and all of this happened very fast.
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Another one was GPS: They had prepared two sets of maths for the satellites, Newtonian and relativistic. They started operating them with the Newtonian model, and the satellites went out of sync, nothing really worked. Then they flipped the switch to relativistic, and everything worked flawlessly.
Even before that they took an atomic clock, put it on a plane, and flew it around the earth to later compare to one that stayed on earth. They differed by the expected fraction of a fraction of a millisecond.
Neither of those two could be done right when Einstein proposed relativity, but experiments like that could already be envisioned, “move a sufficiently precise clock sufficiently fast and compare it to a stationary one” is kind of a no-brainer. That’s not the case with string theory, noone has any idea how to test any of it.
OTOH, physics shouldn’t feel bad about that stuff. E.g. number theory is notorious for results which are considered useless even by the people formulating them, only for an application to appear a century or two later.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Special Relativity was the theory to explain the results of the Michelson Morley Experiment from 20 years earlier that everyone else ignored because it made them uncomfortable and didn’t want to do the math.
Mango@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Was
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
He’s not wrong…
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m fairly certain it’s a meme. Pretty sure I saw this exact thing with a Hawk Tua as the person being quoted.
will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Oh definitely a meme, and a heavily recycled one at that :)