Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Planetary Rotations And String Theory

I believe that some of the strongest evidence that string theory in general, and my version in particular, must be correct is the fact that planets and stars rotate in space. Any physics class can demonstrate that there is no energy at all in gravity and that perpetual motion is impossible because of inefficiency.

Then how can planets and stars continue rotating for millions and millions of years with no apparent source of energy? The answer, of course, is that they can't.

But maybe they're not really rotating. Maybe it is only our perception. Suppose matter really consists of strings that were thrown outward in the Big Bang that began the universe as I described.

The strings would be attracted to each other by gravity. This would cause the strings to wrap around each other in space. When trillions of strings were thus pulled together, forming what we perceive as a planet or star, it would thus have a "twisted" structure due to the interwrapping of it's component strings.

Now suppose we were able to perceive only three spatial dimensions as I have described in the theory. We would perceive the bundle of strings as a sphere instead of a long bundle. Since our consciousness is moving forward in time at what we perceive as the speed of light, the planet would seem to us to be rotating.

It would, of course, not really be rotating in three dimensions. This would be an illusion of ours. It would really be a stationary bundle of wrapped strings stationary in four dimensions. The forward movement of our consciousness along the bundle of strings comprising our bodies combined with our limit of perception to three spatial dimensions, while experiencing the fourth dimension as time, would give us the illusion that the planet is rotating.

Next, suppose we could go straight up in the sky several hundred kilometers. We would be above the atmosphere and thus no longer joined to the planet. But we would still perceive the planet as rotating beneath us. Thus, we would describe ourselves as being in orbit around the planet.

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