Unraveling of the String Theory

The article that I read this week was, “The Unraveling of the String Theory”. It was published on August 14, 2006. The string theory is what made the thought of parallel universes more possible. String theory is the theory that just about everything is made up of little vibrating strings. String theory, was what everyone thought of as the “theory of everything” because theorist thought that even atoms were made up of vibrating strings. These strings did not just exist in a four dimension, but went as far as ten or more dimensions. But people are beginning to abandon the thought of the string theory because when the theorists try to test the theory, it cannot be tested. The physicists are trying to think of new ways to test the string theory. They can’t use the “old-fashioned” way to test the theory because the mathematics are too complex. Every time that they test the theory, new problems arise in the theory. The actual theory itself, is more complex than the math itself. Just the combination of the characteristics is hard. Little vibrating loops and strings that would be impossible to see, and much more harder to test the theory actually on. There is a lot that theorist would have to do to get a small string to test. I would not want to be the one to test this theory! 

Parallel Universes.

Ok so, this week, the article I read was “Parallel Universes” by Michio Kaku on the BBC Network site. This article was published on February 14, 2002. Ok so this article was interesting.

                Parallel universes, are like ours. A lot like ours, because they aren’t very different. In some, people who have passed in our universe might still be alive in others. Empires that have vanished might still be going strong. But, other universes are just really different. Maybe the dinosaurs still exist in one? Maybe there are no people in another universe. These other universes might not know that there are other universes. But the other universes, they may know and they may have signals. Our universe has a signal, but it is very weak. This signal is our very gravity.

                We had originally thought that there were only three dimensions. Originally, the superstring theory, dark matter, and hyperspace, were the three dimensions. But as they studied it, they realized that there were eleven dimensions. Our universe is in the eleventh dimension.

                I learned that that when universe “bubbles” touch, there is a new universe born. Really known as the “Big Bang Theory” and that is what happened when our universe was born. But our universe is just a bubble among an infinite amount of bubbles, but that’s just in the 11th dimension. I try not to imagine the amount of baby universes that are created in each dimension when another pair of bubbles touch in another dimension, every day.

Will We Discover Another Universe?

Ok, so I found an article, called “Will we discover Another Universe?” in Time Magazine. It was an interesting article, because it was published back in 2000. Well as I was reading I learned that the thought of a parallel universe was thought of long before it was really, well thought of. That was the main concept in “Alice in Wonderland” and when I was reading I just realized it! But this article talks about the theories of the parallel universe. It talked about “baby universes” and black holes.

Baby universes, are basically the other ends of black holes, and wormholes. Well it’s a theory, that the baby universe is the end of the wormhole. Some physicists think that they can create baby universes. All by using the black hole matter.

But, the thought of parallel universes, came from Hugh Everett, well the first credited suggestion of it. He played with the implications of quantum mechanics.

One thing that they wrote about in the article was that there are bubbles in these parallel universes. Well they think that there are bubbles and these are “metaverses”. These bubbles are inflated by preexisting universes. If the bubbles were to touch thou, it would cause a wall of fieriness, or most likely the destruction of the universes.

But, I enjoyed this article. It was interesting.