Theory of Everything

[Zlaxer]

I've been reading up on the theory of everything and the two leading candidates (String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity) - decided a thread would be worthwhile.

Here's a question I've been having a hard time finding an answer to, and I'm too lazy to crank through the relevant maths - if a string in on the plank length, how does it form a larger particle? Is an electron a single string or made up of many strings? If a single string, how? do strings move in shells/orbitals or something similar?

[TheReal_ND]

Electrons are both waves and particles at the same time.

[Zlaxer]

Electrons are both waves and particles at the same time.

No - they are only waves - the particle aspect is an illusion bc they're so small...QED

But that doesn't answer the question....how many string in an electron? photon? any "fundamental" particle.

[Fife]

[TheReal_ND]

Electrons are both waves and particles at the same time.

No - they are only waves - the particle aspect is an illusion bc they're so small...QED

But that doesn't answer the question....how many string in an electron? photon? any "fundamental" particle.

Depends on if you measure it or not.

[Zlaxer]

Electrons are both waves and particles at the same time.

No - they are only waves - the particle aspect is an illusion bc they're so small...QED

But that doesn't answer the question....how many string in an electron? photon? any "fundamental" particle.

Depends on if you measure it or not.

A collapsed wave is still a wave....hopefully someone can answer the original question.

[TheReal_ND]

Issac Newton was a really fascinating man. He died a loony toon with lead poisoning trying to rediscover the philosopher's stone and a theory of everything.

He also had some weird theories about the Bible and numerology.

[TheReal_ND]

I'm actually of Anglo extraction largely. How crazy would it be if I was distantly related to that madman?

[Martin Hash]

String Theory is mathematical masturbation. It solves nothing that established theories don't already solve, and can't even be described to a layman, a sure sign of bullshittyness.

[Speaker to Animals]

String theory is not even legitimate science. Most of this science entertainer stuff on television is not real science. Science requires you to construct a model that make risky predictions that can be falsified using the scientific method. Nothing about string theory can be falsified. It's not science.

I think the very idea of making a "theory of everything" the object of research represents a fundamental error about what science actually is.