Mase31683
Legend
Silver Level
So I've taken to a new hobby if I get tilted. Rather than playing $2 hu sngs, I now write crazy letters to full tilt support to see what they say. Up till now I've kept them poker related. But no more! Today I write them the following letter, which I've adapted from a post I made in the infamous, "Is online poker Rigged??? An Investigation!" thread.
Here's what I sent to Full Tilt, and am now taking bets on what the response will be.
Dear Full Tilt:
If you study string theory, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about here. In string theory, rather than point particle physics, which is what all the old-school physicists unreasonably cling to, there is not this magical zero-sized point in space. Instead, there is a string which vibrates at a particular frequency. The higher the frequency, the greater the energy of the particle, the greater the mass.
Upon further and deeper investigation, string theory predicts various aspects of our world, such as gravity, that no other theory permits. In point particle physics, we don't have any reason for gravity to exist, though we do understand fundamentally how it works. In string theory, a mass-less spin 2 particle is inherent, the graviton, which is the reason for gravity to exist. This alone is a great discovery.
However, because point particle physics was around first, people in general want to believe that is the correct model. Humans do not like the idea that what they thought to be true is not, as is the case here.
In string theory, the strings themselves that make up quarks, which make up the protons and neutrons, making up atoms, are unbelievably small. However, there is an absolute size of small, referred to as the Planck length, about 10^-33 cm. Planck length is symbolized as h-bar, just (h) in the following:
c = speed of light
G = Newton's gravitational constant
h = Planck Length
By examining the units of these constants, one can see that the combination:
Sqrt(hG/c^3) has the units of length. In fact, it is 1.616 x 10^-33 cm, this is the Planck Length.
This is the smallest unit to which we can probe our universe. Strings reside within the Planck length, and therefore we cannot currently physically measure them. However, many scientist dedicate their lives to furthering string theory, and creating hypotheses regarding it, in the hopes that one day, just as Einstein's Relativity overthrew Newton's Gravity, so to shall string theory emerge as the more correct representation of our universe.
Do you feel that string theory will ultimately lead scientists to a theory of all?
Thank you,
HandiCAPEable
Here's what I sent to Full Tilt, and am now taking bets on what the response will be.
Dear Full Tilt:
If you study string theory, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about here. In string theory, rather than point particle physics, which is what all the old-school physicists unreasonably cling to, there is not this magical zero-sized point in space. Instead, there is a string which vibrates at a particular frequency. The higher the frequency, the greater the energy of the particle, the greater the mass.
Upon further and deeper investigation, string theory predicts various aspects of our world, such as gravity, that no other theory permits. In point particle physics, we don't have any reason for gravity to exist, though we do understand fundamentally how it works. In string theory, a mass-less spin 2 particle is inherent, the graviton, which is the reason for gravity to exist. This alone is a great discovery.
However, because point particle physics was around first, people in general want to believe that is the correct model. Humans do not like the idea that what they thought to be true is not, as is the case here.
In string theory, the strings themselves that make up quarks, which make up the protons and neutrons, making up atoms, are unbelievably small. However, there is an absolute size of small, referred to as the Planck length, about 10^-33 cm. Planck length is symbolized as h-bar, just (h) in the following:
c = speed of light
G = Newton's gravitational constant
h = Planck Length
By examining the units of these constants, one can see that the combination:
Sqrt(hG/c^3) has the units of length. In fact, it is 1.616 x 10^-33 cm, this is the Planck Length.
This is the smallest unit to which we can probe our universe. Strings reside within the Planck length, and therefore we cannot currently physically measure them. However, many scientist dedicate their lives to furthering string theory, and creating hypotheses regarding it, in the hopes that one day, just as Einstein's Relativity overthrew Newton's Gravity, so to shall string theory emerge as the more correct representation of our universe.
Do you feel that string theory will ultimately lead scientists to a theory of all?
Thank you,
HandiCAPEable