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Apocalyptic Superstring Theory? I like it.

In reply to this comment by honkeytonk73:
Fake.

The universe is only 6000 years old. All the light from so-called galaxies and the rest of the universe was created solely for our amusement and is nothing more than a distraction. It isn't real. It is simply there to keep us busy until the day of rapture, where those who are 'chosen' will the magically transported into an alternate universe where they can live in happy la-la land on solidified cloudtops for the rest of eternity, grow a set of wings, and fly like birds oblivious of all physical laws, aerodynamics, gravity, and be without anuses... as we'll never need to eat or poop material from the physical plane of existence again...

Meanwhile the rest of you non-believers get to be sucked up and eaten by a real black hole along with the rest of the solar system. All black holes ultimately lead to one big highly compressed lake of fire. As fire cannot exist in aqeuous form, it is more like supercompressed plasma... rather than fire and brimstone as most might assume.

First time I had read the Bible
It had stroke me as unwitty
I think it may started rumor
That the Lord ain't got no humor

Put me inside SSC
Let's test superstring theory
Oh yoi yoi accelerate the protons
stir it twice and then just add me, 'cause

I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

From the maelstrom of the knowledge
Into the labyrinth of doubt
Frozed underground ocean
melting - nuking on my mind

Yes give me Everything Theory
Without Nazi uniformity
My brothers are protons
My sisters are neurons
Stir it twice, it's instant family!

I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

My brothers are protons
My sisters are neurons
Stir it twice dlja prekrastnih dam...

Do you have sex maniacs
Or schizophrenics
Or astrophysicists in your family
Was my grandma anti anti
Was my grandpa bounty bounty
Hek-o-hek-o-hej-o
They ask me in embassy!

'Cause I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

And my grandma she was anti!
And my grandpa he was bounty!
And stir it twice
And then just add me!
Partypartypartypartypartyparty
now afterparty...

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>> ^deathcow:
Why 10 dimensions, why those shapes for the dimensions, why vibrating energy, and why any of it in the first place?


Really enjoyed this, but I have been reading a bit - and from what I understand superstring theory is losing favour as an answer to those questions.

What's replacing it is the "anthropic principle" which says that if those important numbers were different, then intelligent life would not exist to ask the questions about them.

physicists who follow the anthropic principle believe that there may be a multitude of parallel universes with lots of different rules and different numbers - we are here because we live in the one that has the right numbers for life.

I'm not a physicist- and I may be talking out of arse, but I find this a lot more interesting than SuperString theory - which looks like it's trying too hard to sell something shaky with pretty graphics. superstring theory calls for 10 dimensions - a small psychological rounding that makes it equal to the number of fingers we have. Not a coincidence in my mind.

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