Membranes collide to form the "big bang"?

[jub jub]

I was watching the science channel and it seems three physicists have come up with a theory where membranes in the 11th dimension ripple and thus come in contact with each other forming the big bang. Evidently, these occurances happen in a random fashion causing multiversus.

This theory supports Einstein's theory of relativity and helps tie up loose ends.

Has anyone heard/read of this and care to explain in more detail.

[Stookie]

I believe that's a theory in one of the many versions of "string theory". There's a pretty good PBS/Nova documentary on the subject that I found fascinating. You can watch it on the PBS website for free:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

[jub jub]

Thanks Stookie.

Man, it seems everyone has a theory these days.

[volcomstone]

there's a new book out from one of the major string theorists, Brian Greene.  His first pulitzer (sp?) prize winning novel was the elegant universe. His new book is called The fabric of the Cosmos.

   The 11 dimension m-brane theory is no doubt obsolete right now.  You can help visualize this by looking up Calabi-Yau spaces, which are just geometric shapes in 11 dimensions.

    Inflationary physics which is the study of the universe in its first few moments of existance   measured in planck time (impossible to imagine time durations)   basically 1 millionth of a billionth of a second. 

     Classical phyics and quantum physics all combine in this moment and spew out random nonsense (1000% probabilities etc).

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  m-brane theory has come to light as a bunch of convoluded equations, and supposedly is the grand unification theory that Einstein failed to ever finish.

           Very promising results, with the advent and activation of the new FERMI-lab and large Hadron collider, could either prove or disprove the string theory.  Hopefully in the process they don't create exotic particles, some of which could have devastating consequences. 


  The idea is that the observable universe is but a mere film or sheet on the surface of a greater object.  Since all we can see is our familiar universe it seems like its all that is. 

[greggkroodsma]

I was watching the science channel and it seems three physicists have come up with a theory where membranes in the 11th dimension ripple and thus come in contact with each other forming the big bang. Evidently, these occurances happen in a random fashion causing multiversus.

This theory supports Einstein's theory of relativity and helps tie up loose ends.

Has anyone heard/read of this and care to explain in more detail.

That is an interesting thought to add to the  mix here.  We have the recurrance of the number 11 which, I guess, means that the ripples and distortions of time now have 11 dimensions or this is the eleventh dimension of twelve dimensions, if you believe the dimensions are divisions of time all dimensions leading to an outcome, as in the movement from one age to another by the progression of the zodiac.
If you take the measurement of time and put it into segments and make the division between segment membranes, you get a more detailed picture.
If you notice each era has elements of the past era until the era is about to change into pulling away to pushing forward.
I do not think at this time we are going from one era to another, just the switchover from pulling away from the era that has passed to pushing ahead to the future era. 
We have the rumors and the studies done about 12/21/2012 and we have photographs and tales of incoming streams of particles from neighboring galaxies, well, is the former rumor true or is the latter tales taking place?  Is it the end or the beginning?
Membranes are a good description, because if you put blood thinner in a person, their arms and legs start turning blue because the blood is so thin it passes through the membranes.
Those physicists on TV, though, are probably working on some p-brane idea or something; you never can tell about those people.  Those physical people probably do like the 5th Dimensions.
You know, we could be individual members of a string of like elements. 
In other words, it is like a cable car that gets its power from the string through some kind of attachment to it.  And the cable car has seats.  The people in the seats have like charges as the string that charges the trolley.  For example, the money system of the world is one string and everybody is on the trolley that is charged by that string.

The string is getting old though and a little frazzled and its about to break.  The happenings of 9/11/01 was an attack on the financial system.  Did they break the string?

[interception]

I have heard of these colliding branes. Have a hard time imagining a 5th dimension, and now these guys are talking about 11 dimensions! Branes colliding to form multiverses, D-Branes, trillion year cycles, quantum loops etc etc!
Although an interesting math concept to think about, the time scales and magnitude of it - it is just too far beyond human experience to really take seriously.

I envy those 200 IQers who can supposedly understand all this stuff.

Heck, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the scale of our one "little" observable universe as it is! 

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