Thursday, December 17, 2009

Gigantic strings all over the place.

I've seen this little guy before but he's never been overly friendly. Here's a pic as he watches me pass with a zen like pose.
Gigantic strings may be the only direct evidence of String Theory we'll ever see. The fundamental strings were formed shortly after the Big Bang. Unimaginably tiny when they were formed (10^-33 cm), some of the ended up as entanglements of many tiny strings similar to a ball of yarn which grew in size as the universe expanded. At the present time those once tiny string entanglements have grown as the universe expanded to it's current size and should be detectable with our present technology as it stretches across the universe.
Or not.
With its near infinite interpretations String Theory is proof that we're all on this flight together.

Dick

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