Recent content by gbarnett

boy, I don't think I know enough to respond to that, but speaking of "annihilating" how would the state of a string producing an electron differ from one producing a positron?

Thanks, I could foller that It wern't too bad.

How about The first paragraph of a technical answer?

misconception should be no surprise with this stuff. So the stuff I am made of is conjured by oscillating strings which I carry along with me (or they carry me along with them, whatever). I shine a light out into space and the energy which is light sends photons out into the void. The...

1) Would the density of strings be constant throughout the universe, would they exist in a vacuum like the aether? 2) Suppose I walk down the street. Do I carry the strings that make the particles of my body with me, or do strings along the way just vibrate to generate (new) identical...

"every point in space" ? The suggestion in the Nova show was that the "extra six" dimensions are clustered about every point in space. This was no doubt some sort of simplification - could anyone shed some light? First of all, does this assume points occur discretely? And for 2 points, would...

OK, but small and curled up could be contained in any of our 3 spatial dimensions. In this case the dimension itself is small and curled up, correct?

how can a dimension be "small" ? Sorry, I'm not much of a physicist. I have read that extra dimensions may be "small" and curled up. Since height, width, and depth appear to be limitless, I am having a hard time understanding what small means when applied to dimensions. I suspect it has...