Tags for this video have been changed from 'superstring theory, string theory, briean greene, ted' to 'superstring theory, string theory, brian greene, ted' - edited by kulpims

Tags for this video have been changed from 'superstring theory, string theory, brian greene, ted' to 'superstring theory, string theory, brian greene, ted, physics' - edited by kulpims

If you like this I highly recommend watching Greene in Nova's The Elegant Universe. You can watch the whole thing here. It's pretty engaging.

god is in the details

i second Enzo's comment. watch The Elegant Universe. and if still so inclined Stephen Hawking's Universe is also very cool. http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Hawkings-Universe-Seeing-is
-Believing

i like his books too

"god is in the details"

Actually, I think the correct saying is "The devil is in the details." String Theory ≠ God.

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

Yeah, I don't know... I've heard all of this many times before, but I still have the same questions as deathcow.

sweet

ug it just gets more and more complicated. Im down for LESS senses now...


whoa careful what i say, knock on wood.

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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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