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'''String theory''', (or super-string theory when coupled with [[Supersymmetry]]), is a class of models in [[theoretical physics]] which replace zero-dimensional points (particles) in four-dimensional spacetime with one-dimensional strings in an eleven-dimensional spacetime as the fundamental building block of the universe. The elusive goal is to develop a set of equations that unify all known natural forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong), according to some preconceived philosophical beliefs about how they ought to be unified. | '''String theory''', (or super-string theory when coupled with [[Supersymmetry]]), is a class of models in [[theoretical physics]] which replace zero-dimensional points (particles) in four-dimensional spacetime with one-dimensional strings in an eleven-dimensional spacetime as the fundamental building block of the universe. The elusive goal is to develop a set of equations that unify all known natural forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong), according to some preconceived philosophical beliefs about how they ought to be unified. | ||
Counterexamples to String Theory show that it cannot be a correct method of determining why and how the [[universe]] behaves or came about. | Counterexamples to String Theory show that it cannot be a correct method of determining why and how the [[universe]] behaves or came about. | ||
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| + | # String theory has never been successfully used to generate a model of the universe resembling our own, with previously observed particles and forces in place. | ||
Revision as of 03:05, August 23, 2011
String theory, (or super-string theory when coupled with Supersymmetry), is a class of models in theoretical physics which replace zero-dimensional points (particles) in four-dimensional spacetime with one-dimensional strings in an eleven-dimensional spacetime as the fundamental building block of the universe. The elusive goal is to develop a set of equations that unify all known natural forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong), according to some preconceived philosophical beliefs about how they ought to be unified. Counterexamples to String Theory show that it cannot be a correct method of determining why and how the universe behaves or came about.
- String theory has never been successfully used to generate a model of the universe resembling our own, with previously observed particles and forces in place.