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I read an article about einsteins relativity and quentum physics. It described how einsteins theory starts "falling apart" when distances get really small. The article mentioned M theory as a possible bridge between quantum physics and relativity. The article was in Time magazine in 2000. How are things in this area today? A lot probably happened in the 5 years since the article was written.

Since I am no physicist I ask you to go easy on me with the science terms.

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Cyracuz wrote:

I read an article about einsteins relativity and quentum physics. It described how einsteins theory starts "falling apart" when distances get really small. The article mentioned M theory as a possible bridge between quantum physics and relativity. The article was in Time magazine in 2000. How are things in this area today? A lot probably happened in the 5 years since the article was written.

Since I am no physicist I ask you to go easy on me with the science terms.

M-Theory is an expansion of String theory. This link calls itself M-Theory Simplified, but I'm still not sure I understand it.

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I kind of understand it in a layman's way and im in 10th grade so I don't think the simple version is TOO hard. REally cool stuff. That's what I want to do when i grow up: be a "theoretical" physicist.

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I read the link rosborne, and now I understand even less... Smile

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Sire:-

You only have one pot of shrimp paste.If you spread it on too many butties nobody gets a taste.

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Shrimp paste you say? You got a whole pot to yourself? Shocked

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Cyracuz wrote:

I read the link rosborne, and now I understand even less...

Ok, here it is in shortest form Smile

There once was a theory called String,
with too many dimensions, but still had a nice ring.
So to make it less eerie, they fumbled with fury,
to change the math and called it M-Theory.

(I know that sucks, but I'm fighting a flu and a fever right now, and with my head throbbing like this, almost anything seems witty)

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The stringy dimentions were ten
But it didn't make sense then
So they chucked it up to eleven
so the strings could ressonate even

(Not much better, and I'm not physically impaired in any way)

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There were many string theories, and they all sort of worked out, so this M-theory unifies them and I think noted that the other string theories are just different ways of looking at one thing, and they made dimensions equal to one.

Anyways, does this theory support the multiple-universe theory?

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I was working on my music yesterday when some similarities hit me. Eleven dimensions- eleven notes. These eleven notes form every scale that exists, and all sound uses these notes (some or all of them). Now you could create eleven theories, one for each note, or you could form an M-theory. In this case M stands for music...

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