>Hmmm, Carrol, I wonder what Chairman Mao would have
>said about Superstring theory and hyperdimensionality
>then? "If you want to know what a Superstring is,
>bite it"??????????????????
Well a superstring cannot be bitten and nor can electromagnetic radiation, though the latter has practical uses.
Only materialist however can dare to suggest that superstrings, and membranes which are derived from them, are proliferating mathematical structures based on an assumption that one dimension like time, is numerically comparable to another dimension like space.
There has been an enormous proliferation in superstring theory which has generated a lot of papers, and presumably therefore continues to receive funding. However it may be no more than mental superstructures like the intricacies of musical combinations. Indeed a new music of the spheres.
Compare the common mathematical convention that equations involving time could just as easily be read as capable of going backwards. Although there is no materialist basis for this.
Once detached from reality the conventions of mathematics can breed and reproduce impressively. Mathematics are a set of arbitrary conventions not absolute truth.
I suspect Mao would bite superstrings rather aggressively. He is quoted after all bluntly saying that the "negation of the negation" does not exist, which in his context was equally heretical.
Chris Burford
London