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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2037530" data-attributes="member: 9410">Actually, there is a way to do science without paradox, or so I am told...  An old theory, called DeBroglia Waves, is supposed to explain the particle-wave characteristics of light.  This is similar to the right-hand/left-hand rule (depending upon how long ago you took physics) where the electric and magnetic charges are at right angles to each other AND the direction of travel.  I have to admit, I really don't understand DeBroglia's theories...Also, on dimensions, there are indeed supposed to be 11 (some in space, some in time), most of which work on a level too small for us to observe.  Since we see only four of these dimensions, there is almost 2/3 of the Universe which is unobservable to us!  This makes sense to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Supposedly, back in the 1960s, someone was doing some computer modelling of atoms, and noticed that, if they posited a fourth spatial dimension, and then rotated a particle through it, that it transformed the electric/magnetic charge into the other, thus explaining the electromagnetic effect.  Everybody thought that that was cool, so they decided to try positing the existence of other spatial dimensions, and see if that explained other such phenomena...What they found was that they could explain ALL of the observable phenomena by positing the existance of 22 dimension!  Then, someone sat down and looked over the math, and saw a way to put several of these dimensions together...  After working on it for a while, they realized that all they really needed was 11 dimensions.String Theory posited some explanations, but had the problem (and still has it) of making no testable predictions.  Worse, five competing string theories were developed!  Finally, one mathemetician (whose name I have long forgotten) "unified his field" by showing that ALL FIVE THEORIES were applications of one single theory.  Now, if they can just come up with a prediction that can be observationally tested!   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Personally, I believe that Einstein had it right, and that The Universe is a finite, quasi-spherical region.  Therefore; since space is limited, time must be, also.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> I also believe that matter/energy will eventually be proven to be neither a particle nor a wave, but something else that we don't understand, yet.  We'll see...Now, whoever puts together String Theory, M Theory, and DeBroglia Waves...   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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