Friday, February 19, 2010

PCR multiplies the amount of DNA.

When the person on CSI swabs the perps mouth for DNA there isn't enough DNA to make an identification so they subject the swab to a process known as PCR. PCR multiplies the amount of DNA so there is enough to use. Exact duplicates of the small amounts of DNA on the swab are made.
One of the challenges of String Theory is that the size of the assumed strings is 17 orders of magnitude smaller than say, a proton. Very small. Too small to have any real chance of seeing them. However, Einstein showed us that it is a fallacy that space is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time. Instead he showed that we live in a spacetime environment. But it is clear that the time dimension is something different from the three spatial dimensions.
For instance time runs in only one direction, but space dimensions can run in any direction.
So lets assume for the moment that the time dimension is curled up so small as to be right next to the spatial dimensions at all times. Now two bits of information can travel faster than the speed of light because it hardly travels any 'distance' at all. So could we find a process that multiplies space dimensions in a manner similar to the PCR process? Sort of a quantum telescope.
There's the concept. All that remains is for the reader to take the trivial step to make it real.
Or not.
PCR is proof that we're all on this flight together.

Dick

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