M of M biography, M of M discography
Type I string theory and others
1.Membrane Interactions
5 Matrix theory
5.This section is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup.Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style.E8 (the HE string) theory.Each theory is fundamentally comprised of vibrating, one dimensional strings at approximately the length of the Planck length.Calculations have also shown that each theory requires more than the normal four spacetime dimensions (although all extra dimensions are in fact spatial.These strings vibrate both in closed loops, so that the strings have no ends, and as open strings with two loose ends.String vibrational patterns
Furthermore, calculations show that the list of string vibrational patterns and the way each pattern interacts and influences others vary from one theory to another.These and other differences hindered the development of the string theory as being the theory that united quantum mechanics and general relativity successfully.In the early 1990s, string theorists discovered that some relations were so strong that they could be thought of as an identification.R, where distances are measured in units of the Planck length.Second, because it is possible to build up any space by gluing circles together in various ways, it would seem that any space described by the IIA string theory can also be seen as a different space described by the IIB theory.This suggests that the IIA string theory and the IIB string theory are really aspects of the same underlying theory.There are still more dualities, however.Only two string theories
Given the above commonalities there appear to be only two string theories: the heterotic string theory (which is also the type I string theory) and the type II theory.There are relations between these two theories as well, and these relations are in fact strong enough to allow them to be identified.It is best explained first in a certain limit.Consequently, the quantum theory describing the low energy limit is a theory that describes the dynamics of these points moving in spacetime, rather than strings.In 10 dimensions, there are only two supergravity theories, which are denoted Type IIA and Type IIB.Type IIB string theory gives rise to Type IIB supergravity.Thus the concept of string theory is expanded.It may be some time before the full implications of these theories are known.TLC documentary Parallel Universes, the M stands for "membrane".Other suggestions by people such as Michio Kaku, Michael Duff and Neil Turok in that documentary are "mother" (as in "mother of all theories"), and "master" theory.Cynics have noted that the M might be an upside down "W", standing for Witten.Witten first proposed, or it can be used to refer to a kind of theory which looks in various limits like the various string theories.Ur, Uber, Ultimate, Underlying, or perhaps Unified.In the standard string theories, strings are assumed to be the single fundamental constituent of the universe.Like the tenth spatial dimension, the approximate equations in the original five superstring models proved too weak to reveal membranes.Strings with "loose ends"
Shortly after Witten's breakthrough in 1995, Joseph Polchinski of the University of California, Santa Barbara discovered a fairly obscure feature of string theory.Strings with closed loops, like the graviton, are completely free to move from membrane to membrane.Of the four force carrier particles, the graviton is unique in this way.Further testing is needed in order to show that extra spatial dimensions indeed exist through experimentation with gravity.Theory is so difficult to formulate is that the numbers of different types of membranes in the various dimensions increases exponentially.For example once you get to 3 dimensional surfaces you have to deal with solid objects with knot shaped holes and then you need the whole of knot theory just to classify them.Theory is thought to live in 11 dimensions then this problem gets very difficult.But just like string theory in order for the theory to satisfy causality the theory must be local and so the topology changing must occur at a single point.Banks, Fischler, Shenker and Susskind (BFSS) conjectured that Matrix theory could provide the answer.Matrix theory predicts that, at short distances, noncommutative geometry takes over, somewhat similar to the way the continuum of water breaks down at short distances in favour of the graininess of molecules.Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law.Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture
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