string theory

"Queen" fans, string theorists and anyone interested by mixing music and physics, this is for you. Maybe I could have put this in the Arts forum. In any case I think it deserves a place somewhere on JREF. I don't know enough about string theory to comment on the content, but I appreciate the...

Sylvester James Gates claims to have discovered computer code in string theory equations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q1LCVknKUJ4 Hmm. ~~ Paul

“The Grand Design”, written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow is an ambitious book written to plainly and clearly explain the answers to the big questions posed by cosmology and philosophy as posed by recent scientific understanding. I found the book easy to read and understand. It is...

If you're interested, Stanford University released Leonard Susskind's String Theory course on iTunes University (P32) . It starts off with just a bit of mathematics. Fortunately none of it looks overly complicated. P.S. Looks like it'll take me about 40 hours to download the whole thing on...

What would it take to dethrone special relativity? To render it irrelevant to serious science, except for the historians? And, more interestingly, are there any ideas of what its replacement would look like? I know how I would answer, if someone asked me the same question, about Evolution by...

The Science Channel (I think) recently presented a program on the eleventh dimension - apparently a Harvard physicist started wondering why gravity was comparatively so much weaker than other forces (except, I guess, the weak force?) and figured out that "the math works perfectly" to explain why...

I was hoping y'all might take a gander at this and see what you think. String Theory, Universal Mind, and the Paranormal Brian D. Josephson Department of Physics, University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K. http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10 ABSTRACT...

This press release prompted me to begin a new thread. I'd come across several others in a cursory search of this sub-forum on the same topic, but they each appeared to be bogged down by tangental banter. I'd like to respectfully request that all interested participants stay on topic here...

Does it count as pseudo or proto-science? Are such ideas like string theory or multiverses just ambitious hypotheses? As far as I know string theory doesn't deserve the title "theory" since there is not enough evidence. The strings haven't been observed or supported at all. I know they hope...

Ok, this is hard. Currently I've become interested in the Superstring Theory. I'm looking for any websites or helpful pointers in understanding this, as well as your opinions on the credibility of it. It seems to me very credible, but composed of complicated parts. One essay I've read on it...

Okay, folks, I need some help here. I may have uncovered an interesting relationship between Higgs bosons, dark matter, and string theory. (It may even point to where the Higgs boson is hiding.) However, to orient everyone, let me start with some nomenclature from the “20,000 foot level”...

So, anybody got any? Seems to be more philosophical than anything, at least at the moment. 10, 11, or whatever dimensions. Fine, I'll say that 4 exist, so provide us even a shred of evidence (other than making the mathematics work out nice) that any extra ones exist in reality. They should...