Some String theory questions.

Lots and lots of questions in one post there. No. However, theoretically speaking, if you get on a spaceship and slow down relative to earth, earth's time will seem slower according to your reference and your time will appear to go faster according to earth's reference. The moment anyone can answer that question, that person will probably get a nobel prize. Scratch that. Make it a super duper nobel prize.The truth of the matter is not a single person on the planet knows what the extra dimensions look like. People can describe them in terms of math, but that's as far as anyone can get. You just described a paradox. There are various postulated theories on time travel out there, but that's all they are right now, postulated theories. If a string vibrates really fast, then it has a lot of enegy, making it representing a heavier element.You are wrong. It is not a little more complex than that. It's a lot more complex than that. In fact, only a hand-full of people in the world that claim they really know about this subject. Theoretically, if the string's frequency of vibration represents its energy, you would have to either take away the energy or put in some more. The ladder would probably result in something similar to what they did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Actually, according to a recent explanation I heard from a local physicist, if you can't put your hand in the rip. If you extend your hand toward the rip, your hand would end up being on the other side of the rip. Huh? Tell you what, why don't you spend 50 grand to put yourself in cryogenic suspension. Instruct the cryo company to "wake" you when they finally can answer that question. It's quite simple to go into the future. Just count from 1 to 3 and VOILA! You are now in the future.If you are talking about a distant future, it is also relatively simple. Get on a spaceship and accelerate to near the speed of light and remain at that speed for about half an hour. Depending on the relative speed of your spaceship, you could literally end up a million years from the moment you left earth about half an hour ago.What I just described is called time dilation. The faster you travel toward the speed of light, the slower your time will go by relative to the rest of the universe. This is a now confirmed fact by both observation and experimentation. That sounds like a good science fiction plot. You are forgiven

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You don't understand. Theoretically, if there is a rip in the fabric of space, we as 3-D creatures won't be able to see it or tell any difference. If you stick your hand into the rip, nothing will happen because your hand will simply come out on the other side of the rip. But we are 3-D creatures, so to us there is no rip in space.So far, we can only see how a rip in space is possible in the calculations. However, noone has yet to propose a way to actually detect such a phenomenon. Since every known scientific method to detects phenomena is based on 3-D, noone knows, or even have an idea, to how we can use our instruments to detect something that is beyond the 3-D space.

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Don't know. Don't care.

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Anything is possible, I guess. According to the string theory, the string is the limit. There are 2 ways to detect something and one way to probe it. In order to detect something, you either have to physically probe it or examine its trail.In order to probe something, you must use something smaller than the thing you are probing. For example, if I want to probe your hand, I would have to use my finger to detect the physical details of your hand. If I use my head or my arm, I can only tell that something is there but I can't really probe your hand.Subatomic particles are smaller than photons and can't be probed directly as I described above. Rather, we can detect them by examining their trails. The apparatus that are used by scientists today to do this is called a cloud chamber. You can do a google search on this to read more about it.However, strings are thought to be even much smaller than any subatomic particle we know. In fact, it's so small that the cloud chamber is useless. Did you get that idea from a science fiction novel?Gravity doesn't warp time. Matter does. The more mass a matter has, the more space-time it warps. I'm an atheist. Perhaps someone else can answer this one. Imagine that space is 2 dimensional. Think of space as a piece of cloth. If you poke a hole in it, you have a rip in space. If you are a 2 dimensional being (you must read Flatland by Edwin Abbott to understand what I am saying) technically you can't detect the rip at all, since you can't look up or down. So, technically the rip doesn't exist for you.Now, apply that to 3 dimensional space. Technically, if there is a rip, we wouldn't be able to detect it at all.Edited to change "a" to "an" before a vowel. I can't %$#$&%^# believe I actually made that mistake!This message has been edited by Lam, 07-22-2004 11:57 PM

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Agreed.

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