Coupla Questions: Universe Strings & Particles

[gbarnett]

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 particles.

 

[Mentat]

Originally posted by gbarnett
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 particles.

This appears to be a misconception. The strings replace the role of point particles in the Standard Model. You are made up of constantly vibrating strings, which behave (for the most part) just as point particles are supposed to. So, to speak of "me moving" is to speak of every particle (string), that helps compose your body, moving.

 

[gbarnett]

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 photons are also enerated by string oscillations, so strings are projected out from the beam?
Am I being too mechanical about this?

 

[Mentat]

Originally posted by Ambitwistor
You're right. Some of the strings whose vibrations act like electrons in the flashlight break, and the new little bits of string that broke off vibrate to act like photons, and those strings fly off away from the flashlight, just as you would expect photons to do.

Nice way to give a non-technical explanation, Ambitwistor. Kudos.

 

[gbarnett]

How about

The first paragraph of a technical answer?

 

[gbarnett]

Thanks, I could foller that

It wern't too bad.

 

[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?