Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Speculations on the place of the "and" and the "or" in string theory

String theory holds that everything is composed of miniscule strings, loops.  Assuming arguendo that the fundamental particles of matter, leptons, electrons, gravitons, what have you, are in fact loops, what makes them different is that each type comes in its own shape.  And how do they acquire their shape?

 The "or", trapped inside, stretches them out trying to escape, while the "and", desiring unity with itself, while the "and", desiring oneness and self containment, tries to pull itself in.  And if different leptons, say gravitons, are attracted to each other, or make things come together, it is because the shapes fit together, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.  And the greater the attraction, the tighter the fit.  And if other particles or waves repel each other, it is because there is no ways these shapes can ever fit.   

The "and" and the "or" also determine the shapes of these strings by working on them from the outside.  Strings are shaped by the "and" bringing them together with, or trying to bring them together with, other strings and the "or" trying to free them from other strings. 

And we may say that strings take their final shape when a symmetry is reached between the "and" and "or" forces acting on them from the inside, and the same forces acting on them from the outside.

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