Black holes may be ‘supermazes’ of many-dimensional strings
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/string-theorists-say-black-holes-are-multidimensional-string-supermazes/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
Black holes may be ‘supermazes’ of many-dimensional strings
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/string-theorists-say-black-holes-are-multidimensional-string-supermazes/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
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Is this a sort of continuation of tesseract theory?
How long are we going to hump this string theory idea? It hasn’t gone anywhere in decades.
normal physics mental gymnastics: “black holes are so dense that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light at a certain point, so everything below that point gets really wacky”
string theory mental gymnastics: “ok but maybe its made out of strings, which we’ve never observed, and maybe those strings are actually like eighteen-dimensional, which is also something we’ve never observed, and they’re all woven together in all those extra dimensions in such a way that…hey, where are you guys going?”
Strip all the electrons off, slam all the neutrons, protons and what have you together, with little to no space.
That would account for the tremendous weight of black holes. Under such pressure and being so tight, these supermaze string highways could be infinite inside.
String theory I know is intended to bridge the gap between relativity and quantum mechanics. But my question is, if we’ve already discovered the higgs boson, the subatomic particle responsible for gravity, shouldn’t it be easy to fit the two together? Wouldn’t one imply the other, or something?
I’m only a layman but this is what first came to mind as I was reading this.
What do can’t grasp is how much smarter Redditors are than Hawking or Einstein.
This theory will last for about a week until the next one comes.
Black holes may be… black holes may be… black holes may be…
I like hear about ‘what they are’ and ‘what they are not’. I’m tired of hearing about what they ‘may be’ beyond the horizon.
Given that we’ll not know anything more than mass, spin, and charge anytime soon, PopSci has free reign to print any ‘may be’ that comes along with impunity.
God more string theory pop Sci BS. I’m glad I started learning about real physics so I could see what a crackpot Michio Kaku (or however you spell it) and his ilk are.
So after reading the article, it seems like these “supermazes” may be black holes, and what we’ve been thinking were black holes may actually be worm holes? If information can’t be destroyed, it would make sense to find something like these super mazes in space if you think of them like caves in the side of a mountain. Instead of dirt and rocks and random minerals, they possibly contain light, energy, particles, etc. we dont yet understand how to measure. If what we’ve thought of as black holes are really worm holes, them “dying” could just be the final transfer of everything inside getting spat out on the other side?
Sounds like they’re describing the ending of interstellar.