Can someone here please summarize Super String Theory for me and how it relates to the paranormal?

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Thanks!

Answer 1

ok the other people have better explanations of string theory than i have, but this is how it relates to paranormal:

everyone is connected by these strings as well (the strings have no mass, but still exist.... like a string of the "god particle" end on end [the god particle is the smallest particle in the universe.... it has no mass, but it makes all matter. thus 0=1]), which explains why some people are "empaths." this connection is discussed in the Ender series by Orson Scott Card.... scientists and soldiers utilize the "strings" to instantaneously communicate with each other instead of relying on light-speed communication....

this kind of helps explain "the secret." your thoughts cause vibrations over all the strings in the universe, and eventually (or instantaneously) those vibrations get back to you, and even move objects into your life.... if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, this won't make much sense. but basically it is how "wishes" or "prayers" work.

this concept is also used in witchcraft. witchcraft utilizes the manipulation of natural energy to achieve a goal, so practitioners tweak these strings and direct the vibrations toward a goal....

the string theory explains herbal healing and crystals as well. these substances have "vibrations" that create changes in the vibrations of other substances....

hope i helped answer your question =)

p.s. keep in mind my explanation is not scientific and slightly deviates from the official string theory, but it ADDS to it in a logical manner.... ya know what's funny.... today i was talking with a friend about the string theory and then i came home and saw this question. i've never seen a question on string theory in paranormal before (and i look at paranormal a LOT)....

Answer 2

Super String Theory, like Quantum Mechanics, has been hijacked by the woo-woo people.  They just love using science-sounding words and phrases to legitimize the unscientific work they're doing.

Answer 3

Well everybody just answered your question very well.. String Theory is fact will proof that the Universe is parallel. Thus justifying extra dimensions of the reality spectrum other then the physical plane. It may in fact indeed certainly prove that their are different levels of consciousness for the observer.

Quantum Physics is doing alot for the cause with new things like "Non Locality" or "Quantum superposition".

I belief that the consciousness switches its observation to another plane of the reality spectrum after death.

Answer 4

Not really.  Although the answers so far are excellent if basic attempts. I have included links for you below.

The best book on the subject written for the non scientist is "Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene.

In the book Greene uses many analogies like ice cubes going through glass in order to explain the weird events that are observed (sometimes only mathematically theorized) at the sub atomic level.

Some people have taken this activity and applied to the material world to explain these events in every day life. This connection is speculative but it does seem to hold some promise of learning something new.

Quantum physics is also associated with the paranormal and this is explore by Dean Radin in his book "Entangled Minds".

Psi

Answer 5

Super strings are the things that make up the things that make up atoms, which are the building blocks of everything. Basically all super strings are good for is putting on a small person's guitar. This is a very small person, mind you. It relates to the paranormal if they are very tiny and need new guitar strings. That's my take on it, anyways.

Answer 6

Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. It is considered one of the most promising candidate theories of quantum gravity. Superstring theory is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory, it is the version of string theory that incorporates fermions and supersymmetry.

Contents

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    * 1 Background

          o 1.1 Basic idea

    * 2 Extra dimensions

    * 3 Number of superstring theories

    * 4 Integrating general relativity and quantum mechanics

    * 5 The Five Superstring Interactions

    * 6 The Mathematics

          o 6.1 D-Branes

          o 6.2 Why Five Superstring Theories?

    * 7 Beyond Superstring Theory

          o 7.1 Compactification

          o 7.2 Kac-Moody algebras

    * 8 See also

    * 9 References

[edit] Background

The deepest problem in theoretical physics is harmonizing the theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation and applies to large-scale structures (stars, galaxies, super clusters), with quantum mechanics, which describes the other three fundamental forces acting on the atomic scale.

The development of a quantum field theory of a force invariably results in infinite (and therefore useless) probabilities. Physicists have developed mathematical techniques (renormalization) to eliminate these infinities which work for three of the four fundamental forces – electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear forces - but not for gravity. The development of a quantum theory of gravity must therefore come about by different means than those used for the other forces.

[edit] Basic idea

The basic idea is that the fundamental constituents of reality are strings of the Planck length (about 10−33 m) which vibrate at resonant frequencies. Every string in theory has a unique resonance, or harmonic. Different harmonics determine different fundamental forces. The tension in a string is on the order of the Planck force (1044 newtons). The graviton (the proposed messenger particle of the gravitational force), for example, is predicted by the theory to be a string with wave amplitude zero. Another key insight provided by the theory is that no measurable differences can be detected between strings that wrap around dimensions smaller than themselves and those that move along larger dimensions (i.e., effects in a dimension of size R equal those whose size is 1/R). Singularities are avoided because the observed consequences of "Big Crunches" never reach zero size. In fact, should the universe begin a "big crunch" sort of process, string theory dictates that the universe could never be smaller than the size of a string, at which point it would actually begin expanding.

[edit] Extra dimensions

    See also: Why does consistency require 10 dimensions?

Our physical space is observed to have only three large dimensions — and taken together with time as the fourth dimension — a physical theory must take this into account. However, nothing prevents a theory from including more than 4 dimensions, per se. In the case of string theory, consistency requires spacetime to have 10, 11 or 26 dimensions. The conflict between observation and theory is resolved by making the unobserved dimensions compactified.

Our minds have difficulty visualizing higher dimensions because we can only move in three spatial dimensions. One way of dealing with this limitation is not to try to visualize higher dimensions at all, but just to think of them as extra numbers in the equations that describe the way the world works. This opens the question of whether these 'extra numbers' can be investigated directly in any experiment (which must show different results in 1, 2, or 2+1 dimensions to a human scientist). This, in turn, raises the question of whether models that rely on such abstract modelling (and potentially impossibly huge experimental apparatus) can be considered 'scientific.' Six-dimensional Calabi-Yau shapes can account for the additional dimensions required by superstring theory.The theory states that every point in space (or whatever we considered as point) is in fact a very small 'sphere'(better say manifold) with a diameter of 10−33 m

Superstring theory is not the first theory to propose extra spatial dimensions, the Kaluza-Klein theory did already. Modern string theory relies on the mathematics of folds, knots, and topology, which was largely developed after Kaluza and Klein, and has made physical theories relying on extra dimensions much more credible.

Unsolved problems in physics: Is string theory, superstring theory, or M-theory, or some other variant on this theme, a step on the road to a "theory of everything," or just a blind alley?

[edit] Number of superstring theories

Theoretical physicists were troubled by the existence of five separate string theories. This has been solved by the second superstring revolution in the 1990s during which the five string theories were discovered to be different limits of a single underlying theory: M-theory.

String Theories

Type Spacetime dimensions

Details

Bosonic 26 Only bosons, no fermions means only forces, no matter, with both open and closed strings; major flaw: a particle with imaginary mass, called the tachyon

I 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with both open and closed strings, no tachyon, group symmetry is SO(32)

IIA 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, massless fermions spin both ways (nonchiral)

IIB 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, massless fermions only spin one way (chiral)

HO 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, heterotic, meaning right moving and left moving strings differ, group symmetry is SO(32)

HE 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, heterotic, meaning right moving and left moving strings differ, group symmetry is E8×E8

The five consistent superstring theories are:

    * The type I string has one supersymmetry in the ten-dimensional sense (16 supercharges). This theory is special in the sense that it is based on unoriented open and closed strings, while the rest are based on oriented closed strings.

    * The type II string theories have two supersymmetries in the ten-dimensional sense (32 supercharges). There are actually two kinds of type II strings called type IIA and type IIB. They differ mainly in the fact that the IIA theory is non-chiral (parity conserving) while the IIB theory is chiral (parity violating).

    * The heterotic string theories are based on a peculiar hybrid of a type I superstring and a bosonic string. There are two kinds of heterotic strings differing in their ten-dimensional gauge groups: the heterotic E8×E8 string and the heterotic SO(32) string. (The name heterotic SO(32) is slightly inaccurate since among the SO(32) Lie groups, string theory singles out a quotient Spin(32)/Z2 that is not equivalent to SO(32).)

Chiral gauge theories can be inconsistent due to anomalies. This happens when certain one-loop Feynman diagrams cause a quantum mechanical breakdown of the gauge symmetry. The anomalies were canceled out via the Green-Schwarz mechanism.

[edit] Integrating general relativity and quantum mechanics

General relativity typically deals with situations involving large mass objects in fairly large regions of spacetime whereas quantum mechanics is generally reserved for scenarios at the atomic scale (small spacetime regions). The two are very rarely used together, and the most common case in which they are combined is in the study of black holes. Having "peak density", or the maximum amount of matter possible in a space, and very small area, the two must be used in synchrony in order to predict conditions in such places; yet, when used together, the equations fall apart, spitting out impossible answers, such as imaginary distances and less than one dimension.

The major problem with their congruence is that, at sub-Planck (an extremely small unit of length) lengths, general relativity predicts a smooth, flowing surface, while quantum mechanics predicts a random, warped surface, neither of which are anywhere near compatible. Superstring theory resolves this issue, replacing the classical idea of point particles with loops. These loops have an average diameter of the Planck length, with extremely small variances, which completely ignores the quantum mechanical predictions of sub-Planck length dimensional warping, there being no matter that is of sub-Planck length.

[edit] The Five Superstring Interactions

The five superstring interactions

The five superstring interactions

There are five ways open and closed strings can interact. An interaction in superstring theory is a topology changing event. Since superstring theory has to be a local theory to obey causality the topology change must only occur at a single point. If O represents a closed string and C an open string, then the five interactions are, symbollically:

CCC + OOO + CCCC + CO + CCO

All open superstring theories also contain closed superstrings since closed superstrings can be seen from the fifth interaction, they are unavoidable. Although all these interactions are possible, in practice the most used superstring model is the closed heterotic E8xE8 superstring which only has closed strings and so only the second interaction (OOO) is needed.

[edit] The Mathematics

The single most important equation in (first quantisized bosonic) string theory is the N-point scattering amplitude. This treats the incoming and outgoing strings as points, which in string theory are tachyons, with momentum ki which connect to a string worl

Answer 7

The simple answer.It's an attempt to lend credibility to the paranormal.Using scientific language to legitimize silly mumbo-jumbo.Like all other attempts it will be de-bunked at some point.Not to worry,another will soon take it's place.The imaginations of paranormal believers are relentless.

Answer 8

It's a scientific theory which has never made an accurate prediction, just like paranormal investigators.

Answer 9

In String Theory, the myriad of particle types is replaced by a single fundamental building block, a `string'. These strings can be closed, like loops, or open, like a hair. As the string moves through time it traces out a tube or a sheet, according to whether it is closed or open. Furthermore, the string is free to vibrate, and different vibrational modes of the string represent the different particle types, since different modes are seen as different masses or spins. One mode of vibration, or `note', makes the string appear as an electron, another as a photon.

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

Answer 10

superstring theory may answer those big questions.

Depending on which way the superstrings rotate; there are either 10 or 21 different dimensions.

Multiple dimensions would explain how  things like hauntings are senced when nothing is visible.

Answer 11

All I can say is.......WOW. I'd hate to be the one to have to choose a best answer to this one- These guys REALLY know their stuff! Good luck choosing a "best" - they all deserve the points!

Answer 12

In SuperString (Soosey) theory, the smallest particles of all matter/energy is a string. These different strings exist at different tensions, and thus vibrate at different frequencies, contributing to the difference between types of matter. Any paranormal activities or matter/energy could be explained as originating from a different type of string.

Answer 13

Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. It is considered one of the most promising candidate theories of quantum gravity. Superstring theory is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory, it is the version of string theory that incorporates fermions and supersymmetry.

The basic idea is that the fundamental constituents of reality are strings of the Planck length (about 10−33 m) which vibrate at resonant frequencies. Every string in theory has a unique resonance, or harmonic. Different harmonics determine different fundamental forces. The tension in a string is on the order of the Planck force (1044 newtons). The graviton (the proposed messenger particle of the gravitational force), for example, is predicted by the theory to be a string with wave amplitude zero. Another key insight provided by the theory is that no measurable differences can be detected between strings that wrap around dimensions smaller than themselves and those that move along larger dimensions (i.e., effects in a dimension of size R equal those whose size is 1/R). Singularities are avoided because the observed consequences of "Big Crunches" never reach zero size. In fact, should the universe begin a "big crunch" sort of process, string theory dictates that the universe could never be smaller than the size of a string, at which point it would actually begin expanding.

Our physical space is observed to have only three large dimensions — and taken together with time as the fourth dimension — a physical theory must take this into account. To make the maths work spacetime must have 10, 11 or 26 dimensions, and these must be compactified.

I wouldn't really call it paranormal, but I guess the extra dimensions are what you are referring to. Also some paranormal events can be "explained" by super string theory apparently...

It is important to note that this is just a theory with no real evidence.