> But we do have candidates, including string theory.
Oh no, you mean the theory that physicists say we see no evidence of at all? Great, if that is the basis, ... lets see what follows.
> In string theory all the particles of the universe are actually microscopic vibrating loops of string. In order to support the wide variety of particles and forces that we observe in the universe, these strings can't just vibrate in our three spatial dimensions. Instead, there have to be extra spatial dimensions that are curled up on themselves into manifolds so small that they escape everyday notice and experimentation.
Right, it would most definitely escape the experiments I have in my garage ... Who talks about "everyday experimentation" when talking about string theory? I mean, in "everyday experimentation" we don't even see atoms and most of us in their "everyday experimentation" do not even see molecules. Really makes you wonder what "everyday experimentation" they are going on about.
> That exotic structure in spacetime gave a team of researchers the tools they needed to identify a new class of object, something that they call a topological soliton. In their analysis they found that these topological solitons are stable defects in space-time itself. They require no matter or other forces to exist—they are as natural to the fabric of space-time as cracks in ice. The research is published in the journal Physical Review D.
But cracks in ice do consist of something: Usually air that fills the gaps. And even if we put ice in perfect vacuum somehow, there is still space between the parts of the ice. It is not like there is nothing. Seems like a bad analogy. At least they would have to go into what "fills" the gaps like with ice. Some space-time-vacuum?
On top of that, the article tries to explain things by using even more in my vocabulary undefined terms like "soliton".
> Because they are objects of extreme space-time [...]
Ah, they are "of extreme space-time"! Now I know ... nothing.
I don't feel like I understood anything valuable, but more like reading a sci-fi novel. Although, sometimes sci-fi novels do make more sense in their own invented universe than this article. Was this article perhaps generated by some language model?
> But we do have candidates, including string theory.
Oh no, you mean the theory that physicists say we see no evidence of at all? Great, if that is the basis, ... lets see what follows.
> In string theory all the particles of the universe are actually microscopic vibrating loops of string. In order to support the wide variety of particles and forces that we observe in the universe, these strings can't just vibrate in our three spatial dimensions. Instead, there have to be extra spatial dimensions that are curled up on themselves into manifolds so small that they escape everyday notice and experimentation.
Right, it would most definitely escape the experiments I have in my garage ... Who talks about "everyday experimentation" when talking about string theory? I mean, in "everyday experimentation" we don't even see atoms and most of us in their "everyday experimentation" do not even see molecules. Really makes you wonder what "everyday experimentation" they are going on about.
> That exotic structure in spacetime gave a team of researchers the tools they needed to identify a new class of object, something that they call a topological soliton. In their analysis they found that these topological solitons are stable defects in space-time itself. They require no matter or other forces to exist—they are as natural to the fabric of space-time as cracks in ice. The research is published in the journal Physical Review D.
But cracks in ice do consist of something: Usually air that fills the gaps. And even if we put ice in perfect vacuum somehow, there is still space between the parts of the ice. It is not like there is nothing. Seems like a bad analogy. At least they would have to go into what "fills" the gaps like with ice. Some space-time-vacuum?
On top of that, the article tries to explain things by using even more in my vocabulary undefined terms like "soliton".
> Because they are objects of extreme space-time [...]
Ah, they are "of extreme space-time"! Now I know ... nothing.
I don't feel like I understood anything valuable, but more like reading a sci-fi novel. Although, sometimes sci-fi novels do make more sense in their own invented universe than this article. Was this article perhaps generated by some language model?