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I've been reading about string theory and extra dimensions that have been compactified. ..Anyway, why is there a desire to unify the various forces?
Don't be fooled by the amount of stuff. The baryonic part has physics that is vastly, vastly more complicated than the rest, so as far as the physics is concerned, we know a heck of a lot more than this simple counting of energy densities implies.I just get the sense that this is potentially something much more complicated (or maybe even much more simple) than we realize. The fact that we are unable to find 90% of the mass in the universe implies to me that our entire understanding of the workings of the universe is massively deficient.
Well, string theory requires a specific number of dimensions, and that number is more than the dimensions we observe. So this necessitates that those dimensions be difficult to observe. There are two known ways to do this:The introduction of compactified dimensions seems to make the model more complicated, as it raises the question of why some dimensions are compactified and others are not. I'm in no way an expert in this area, so feel free to fill me in.
There is a tendency to think that knowledge can be a crutch. It isn't. It's a staggeringly-powerful tool. The truth of the matter is that if you don't know about what people have learned before, about what they have discovered works and doesn't, your chance of coming to something even remotely accurate is slim to none.I think we will find a very elegant and very simple answer once people accept that some of the things we are taught are not true. They are just theories after all but it seems that we accept them as laws. This is preventing us from finding the true answers. We will have to question all things we think we know to come up with a theory of everything. The key is to get less complicated in the answer not more complicated.
I think we will find a very elegant and very simple answer once people accept that some of the things we are taught are not true. They are just theories after all but it seems that we accept them as laws. This is preventing us from finding the true answers. We will have to question all things we think we know to come up with a theory of everything. The key is to get less complicated in the answer not more complicated.