How are your thoughts on this guess of mine?

Question

Writing a new version of another question since I did not get the question right.
Please, since English is my second language I hope you can disregard any spelling errors.

I do not have a mathematical talent, at all. I do have a creative and logical mind though.
I have thought about the "string theory" or "M-theory" a lot and got this thought. Do any of you have any thoughts about this? It is only thoughts and probably a wild guess scientificly but here goes:

Mass creates a gravitational pull, and as the mass becomes greater and/or more dense, the gravitational pull gets stronger. It then pulls smaller portions of mass towards it and/or depending on speed and trajectory of portion pulls it into an orbit.

Now if we start from the atom and scale up we see protons, neutrons and electrons (not having included antimatter or other..) and another step and we see quarks..and so on until we find the strings that are the final step.

Now for my thoughts.
The strings are folds in space-time that vibrate and thus (in a yet unknown way) creates matter... thus we are all vibrations of nothing. The folds might create the gravitational pull with the folding itself... like a piece of cloth that you pinch and make a small fold... anything on it will move towards the fold. And the more mass, the more strings and folds... the more gravitational pull.

Since I have not studied this in any way (meaning: learned mathematical fomulas and rules about the area in astrophysics that it concerns) I hope you read this as written by the layman that I am. And yes I do know there are more advanced ways to describe what I wrote... but i did not want to write for hours :D

Answer 1

As a theoretical physicist and teacher of astronomy, I was interested in your question. You have summed up the situation quite well, except for one thing. String theory (of which there are actually 5) suggests rather that all particles and forces are the actual vibrations themselves rather than the strings. In fact, if you take the 5 string theories and add one more dimension to the ten they require, they coalesce into one, namely M Theory. My current area of research is in M Theory, and the more I work with it the more it appears to be what Noetikos rather disparagingly seems to dismiss, a possible Theory of quantum gravity. We aren't there yet, but it certainly looks promising. The main problem with gravity in OUR Universe is that it is so much weaker than the other three forces. However, M Theory suggests that gravity (and the associated Higgs Field) are actually entities of the Multiverse and is shared among all universes. This seems to be possible because the strings on which gravity resides are not sticky cut ended strings which stick to their respective membrane, but rather vibrations on loops of strings which are able therefore to pass from one universe to another. Curiously, when the extra dimension was added and M Theory formulated, out of the maths also appeared in toto, the Einstein Field Equations. This surprised us all, but it was quickly realized that this had to be an indicator that M Theory was on the right track, and that Quantum Mechanics and Relativity will one day be reconciled into the Holy Grail of a Theory of Everything. This doesn't mean we will know everything, but that we will be able to write down all four fundamental forces in one equation, therefore giving us the equation of the creation of our Universe itself. Those 11 dimensions are part of our Universe. We cannot be sure how many dimensions exist in the Multiverse, though the latest work suggests there may be at least 2 dimensions of time. However, this can only be shown mathematically, and here is not the place to go into such highly complex calculations. Congratulations on an interesting, well thought out question, and I can assure you there is little wrong with your English!

Answer 2

I think one needs to keep the concept of string theory in perspective. String theory removes all subatomic structures and replaces them with vibrations. You either believe in quarks and leptons or you believe in strings. The strings are not physical objects but merely vibrations.



The phrase that they vibrate like the string of a violin is mistakenly taken literally by some who imagine a physical string when there is in reality only a vibration.



It is difficult to imagine how a vibration can bend spacetime as you suggest. In string theory the degree of vibration creates the amount of the mass but the string itself - the vibration - would not fold onto itself. The 'nothing' is actually a force and cannot be compared to a piece of cloth which bends or changes shape. It would not be the number of strings and/or folds but the vibrational frequency which would determine the mass.



String theory is an attempt to increase our understanding of gravity by joining the micro world with the macro world. Two things which operate on different principles and which may never be united in a common way.

Answer 3

That's sort of how I view matter and energy. Energy being waves propagating through space-time (sort of like waves on the surface of a pond, those also representing energy), and matter as standing waves anchored by the Higgs field. With enough of these waves in one place, they create a larger curvature in space-time which we know of as gravity. So matter and energy are nothing more than waves in space-time, although I don't apply string theory to it like yourself.

Answer 4

("How are your thoughts on this guess of mine?")

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A very thought provoking question, indeed.



I don't know about an answer but I, for one, learned a few things between your question and Erica's answer.



Keep thinking! I encourage you to further develop your hypothesis and see how far you can take it.



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