Michio Kaku: The Universe Is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings
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http://bigthink.com The co-founder of Field String Theory explains why the universe has 11 dimensions rather than any other number. Question: Why are there only 11 dimensions in the universe rather than something higher? (Submitted by John Menon) Michio Kaku: I work in something called String Theory, that's what I do for a living. In fact, that's my day job. I'm the co-founder of String Field Theory, one of the main branches of String Theory. The latest version of String Theory is called M-Theory, "M" for membrane. So we now realize that strings can coexist with membranes. So the subatomic particles we see in nature, the quartz, the electrons are nothing but musical notes on a tiny vibrating string. What is physics? Physics is nothing but the laws of harmony that you can write on vibrating strings. What is chemistry? Chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can play on interacting vibrating strings. What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings. And then what is the mind of God that Albert Einstein eloquently wrote about for the last 30 years of his life? We now, for the first time in history have a candidate for the mind of God. It is, cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. So first of all, we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. Obeying the laws of physics, which is nothing but the laws of harmony of vibrating strings. But why 11? It turns out that if you write a theory in 15, 17, 18 dimensions, the theory is unstable. It has what are called, anomalies. It has singularities. It turns out that mathematics alone prefers the universe being 11 dimensions. Now some people have toyed with 12 dimensions. At Harvard University, for example, some of the physicists there have shown that a 12-dimensional theory actually looks very similar to an 11-dimensional theory except it has two times, double times rather than one single time parameter. Now, what would it be like to live in a universe with double time? Well, I remember a movie with David Niven. David Niven played a pilot, who was shot down over the Pacific, but the angels made a mistake, he was not supposed to die that day. And so the angels brought him back to life and said, "Oh, sorry about that. We killed you off by accident; you were not supposed to die today." So in a great scene, David Niven then walks through a city where time has stopped. Everyone looks like this. And there's David Niven just wandering around looking at all these people. That's a world with double time. David Niven has one clock, but everyone else has a separate clock and these two clocks are perpendicular to each other. So if there's a double time universe, you could walk right into a room, see people frozen in time, while you beat to a different clock. That's a double time universe. Now this is called F-Theory, "F" for father, the father of strings. It's not known whether F-Theory will survive or not; however, M-Theory in 11 dimension is the mother of all strings. And that theory works perfectly fine. So to answer your question, in other dimensions, dimensions beyond 11, we have problems with stability, these theories are unstable, they decay back down to 11 dimensions, they have what are called anomalies, singularities, which kill an ordinary theory. So the mathematics itself forces you to 11 dimensions. Also because this is a Theory of Everything, there's more room in higher dimensions to put all the forces together. When you put gravity, electromagnetism and the nuclear force together, four dimensions is not big enough to accommodate all these forces. When you expand to 11 dimensions, bingo, everything forms perfectly well.
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The professor makes a lot of assertions, but the amount of observational evidence he supplies is the same amount that has always been supplied for string theory or "eleven dimensions" or "twelve dimensions": zero. He's basically fantasizing, playing out the implications of the fantasy, calling it a theory, and acting as if this theory-fantasy has been established.
"The mathematics forces you to accept 11 dimensions," he says. No, math is about measuring and quantifying what you can observe. The rock comes first; we see it, we measure it. Then comes the math about its volume, weight, hardness, etc. The math doesn't show the fact of the rock. I observe the rock with my senses. The math is based on what I observe and what I measure. -
Watching these videos about the universe helps me better understand the TV show "Rick and Morty"
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This man is right. At the base of it all is a being that looks just like him ,accept with a blue colored skin, singing a song. The vocals of his voice is so powerful that all of creation seats within it.
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Mind = Blown .....
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I can control everything with sound ,frequency, and magnetic.
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every true
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So if there is the possibility of two timelines running perpendicular to each other, why couldn't there be infinite timelines as there are (theoretically) infinite other physical universes?
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maybe someone can help me out i recall
a movie from the 1960s and it is about a
man that steps off a train or subway in
new york or maybe dc but, he interupts
the time monitors adjusting reality for
the next group of passengers, that is
about all i remember. it waz something
to do with being out of phase.
help me out, pleaze.
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stairway to heaven, have always loved that movie.
outstanding memories of a young girl of about 8
seeing the possibilities presented of life heaven
and the fact that mistakes are a part of life which
can be reversed. and in addition to msser. David
Niven we see a very young "dickie" attenborough.
you might want to look at the movie Beetlejuice
as it is also along the same lines as stairway to
heaven.
dear, msser. michio kaku, i enjoy listening to
you as you explain the unseen, in the world and
universe around us. i like the thought of cosmic
music but, at what frequency would it vibrate
to achieve perfect resonance?
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12 Dimension makes sense...there are 12 tones in music...Time travel must be possible!!
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i hate to break it to you but its not music thats vibrating, its the spoken Word. In the beginning was the Word
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"Time has stopped and everyone looked like this" a universe where everyone looked like michio kaku
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This is what spirituality talks about with vibration and frequency. It's the subjective experience of objective scientific knowledge.
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This is philosophical - How and what drives the string to dance and how all strings are connected to super string is what scientist fail to present us in simplicity - https://www.scribd.com/doc/312786701/The-String-and-its-Quantum-Dance-The-Secret-of-Ekpyrotic-Scenario-of-Cosmic-Creation
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Thanks for this Explation. In east religions Universe is made of Vibration called Naad.There are many words called Vismaad Naad , Brahm Naad , Anhad Naad.
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When answering a question about how anything other than 11 dimensions would be whack, he points to 12 dimensions rather than 4 or 3. How integritous.
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so happens that there is 11 semitones in an octave in music, next 12th resonates with the tone where you started.
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Maybe our mathematics, as a human system, cannot factor more than 11 dimensions.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. -
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