What are Strings made of???

[mkirkpatrick]

But inside a vacuum one would die first before being hit by these objects. On the other hand, the impact has to do with the object's linear momentum so the one with more mass can do more damage.

You would have to be wearing your vacuum protection
suit of course vps for short.




regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

Then nothing would damage it not even the impacts of micrometeorites.

[mkirkpatrick]

Then nothing would damage it not even the impacts of micrometeorites.

That is correct!



regards michael.

[Profpat]

If i remembered right from reading books on superstring, strings are modes of vibration of energy in a space-time continuum. Just how energy does these vibration? I'm still puzzled. There are a few energy formulae that can show these modes:

1. [math]E=mc^2[/math]

2. [math]E=h\nu[/math]

3. [math]E^2=c^2p^2+m^2c^4[/math]

4. [math]E=T+V[/math]

maybe more. but #2 is a good candidate because of the appearance of frequency, a wave property of all oscillatory motions.

Do you think these vibrating modes, would be vibrating such, to make a spectrum on the string? Could a string be a gamma ray?

[austintorn@aol.com]

Strings would have to be made only of themselves and be of some stringiness. Since they would then by nature be unbreakable, their massive tensions would never hurt them and so could they could forever vibrate in all the ways necessary to produce all of the fundamental particles and forces. OK, that settles that and so we can close this thread down.

[mkirkpatrick]

Strings would have to be made only of themselves and be of some stringiness. Since they would then by nature be unbreakable, their massive tensions would never hurt them and so could they could forever vibrate in all the ways necessary to produce all of the fundamental particles and forces. OK, that settles that and so we can close this thread down.

No.


regards michael.

[Profpat]

No.


regards michael.

NO! I just discovered this thread. But thank you Austin for your input.

[austintorn@aol.com]

OK, let's reopen the thread and continue. Since a string has no parts, it is both unbreakable and unmakable (no parts to make it out of), so, then, we have found the Eternal!

Kind of like energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Strings are now my "God", the funny thing being that no strings are attached to us, but only that we are made of them!

[Profpat]

OK, let's reopen the thread and continue. Since a string has no parts, it is both unbreakable and unmakable (no parts to make it out of), so, then, we have found the Eternal!

Kind of like energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Strings are now my "God", the funny thing being that no strings are attached to us, but only that we are made of them!

And a very fine weave it is Austin.

So do you believe that strings are vibrating modes of energy, essentially vibrating space, and that is the fundamental substance ( vibrating space )?

[austintorn@aol.com]

Strings could very well be all that Prof; it's just that we can't know yet. The formulas do work, all 10**1000 of them, which are at least a string hint that a universe can exist in many ways.

I sill have to say that there is a problem with real stuff being eternal, although "something" had to be, because (1) How could "forever" have already happened, it not being a completable thing (2) What would have determined the necessary amount of the strings? (3) How the heck could these forever existing strings have had many other qualities that could work out so well and go on to all of our glorious and higher composite complexities made of them? (4) How did they appear enough in one spot to do anything as a whole?

As for a (5) of why they don't wear out, having been around forever, that is still covered as long as they are unbreakable.