Monday, September 20, 2010

The Elegant Universe

Questions:

1) What is a theory and what is a philosophy?

A theory is some idea of how something works, and it has some actual facts to prove that this theory could be true. A philosophy is an idea created to help explain things, but it has no real evidence.

2) Will string theory become a religion?

If no real evidence of this theory will be discovered in a few decades, but yet the theory just makes so much sense, so some people believe it yet others think it as crazy, then I guess it could become a religion. I don't really think so, because string theory is all science, physics and mathematics, and I don't think I know a religion based on a scientific theory or idea.

3) What are five of the questions they are trying to answer in this scientific and intellectual pursuit?

How can we join general relativity with quantum mechanics?
Is string theory really the theory of everything?
How can we prove that string theory is real?
Are there really 11 dimensions and parallel universes?
Can we use string theory to explain what happened at the beginning of this universe?

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