Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 934 Superstring

So what do humans actually see in the microscopic world? Or what do they vaguely perceive?
The answer is the string, which constitutes the microscopic world, microscopic high-dimensional structures, and may even be the most basic thing in the universe, and is also something very illusory!
That was the description of a scientist who had completed the evolution of consciousness and cognition through many years of training. He said that what he "saw" in the microscopic world might be various magical structures composed of strings.

But he couldn't say for sure whether it was the string or not, because no one had ever seen it.

He said it was a string, but that was only because in the knowledge system of human civilization, strings are said to be the smallest vibrations in the universe. Based on this cognition, he thought he saw a string structure.

To be sure, a lot of verification is needed.

How to verify?

Naturally, the structure he "saw" was compared with the existing string theory. If they matched, it was the string in the physical theory of human civilization. If they didn't match, it meant that it might not be a string, or it might be that the string theory of human civilization was wrong.

So how do we compare?
Of course, we cannot use the subjective feeling of "seeing" to make a comparison. Instead, we should get the formulas and laws that summarize the rules through "seeing" and then compare them with what we have derived from human theories.

This research may turn superstring theory from a hypothesis into a truth.

Speaking of which, superstring theory is still a hypothesis for humans, who are now a level five civilization.

Physicists have always been particularly interested in superstring theory because it forces people to change their understanding of the nature of matter. The earliest understanding of the nature of matter was in the Spring and Autumn Period, when humans realized that everything in the universe is composed of tiny point particles. There is a record in the book "Mozi": "If it is not cut, it will not move. The saying is at the end." This means that matter is constantly divided from the middle until it can no longer be divided. At this time, the matter is called "end".

The "end" mentioned by Mozi is actually the earliest point particle theory in human history. The reason why the end point is called the end point is because Mozi defined the meaning of "end".

The Mohist Classic also says: "Duan is the most disordered and former state of the body." Duan means the most primitive thing that is inseparable from the composition of an object. It can also be understood that the first appearance of the chaotic and disordered state of the universe is "Duan".

The ancients were just limited by the times, not stupid. On the contrary, the achievements of the ancient philosophers are far higher than what ordinary people know. Many of the definitions we use now were made by Mozi, such as the rule, square, circle, the "long" to describe time, the "Yu" to represent space, the concepts of "times" and "flat" in mathematics, the earliest concept of "force" in physics, the concepts of the resistance arm "base" and the power arm "biao" in the lever principle, etc., were all first defined by Mozi.

The "end" is the earliest human cognition of indivisible point particles.

But superstring theory says that the ultimate building blocks of nature are made of tiny vibrating strings. If it is correct, it means that all matter, from protons and neutrons to electrons and quarks, and from the human body to distant stars, is made of strings.

Before this, no one in human civilization had ever seen the theoretical strings because they were too small to observe. Theoretically, strings are only one billionth the size of a proton. In fact, human civilization's detection technology is already very advanced, and even nano-mining robots like "Little Gray" can be built, but the theoretical strings are still not visible.

The reason is that "seeing" with a detector is actually a process of interaction between elementary particles, so that human exploration of the microscopic world has always stopped at quarks.

And now, humans are "seeing" the outline of the strings in another way by connecting devices through consciousness.

If we continue along this path, we may be able to perfect superstring theory and use strings instead of the concept of point particles to explain the diversity of point particles and the forces generated by the exchange of point particles in nature.

Superstring theory is comprehensive and elegant, and it simply explains why there are billions of different types of particles and matter in the universe, with surprisingly different characteristics.

Superstring theory tells us that it can produce a coherent and all-encompassing picture of nature, just as strings can combine all musical tones and harmony rules. Diverse rules can be derived from an apparent phenomenon, just as a string can resonate with different frequencies, and each resonance of a different frequency can produce an independent tone in the scale, and a vibrating string can produce different tones.

Corresponding to the real physical world, it means plucking the strings of physics, thereby achieving influence from the extremely microscopic to the microscopic and then to the macroscopic.

The same is true for physical phenomena. In superstring theory, the fundamental forces and various particles found in nature are actually just different modes of vibrating strings. For example, gravitational interactions are caused by the lowest vibration mode of a circular string, and higher excitations of such strings can produce different forms of matter.

Arguably, from the perspective of string theory, no force or particle is more important than any other, they are all just different vibrational responses of a vibrating string.

If human civilization can get a glimpse of this, it may be able to master some technology to pluck a string to change its vibration mode and achieve a certain effect.

So based on the theories mastered by human civilization today, if superstring theory is correct, then it must have something in common with the theory of everything.

Perhaps its perfection will be one of the keys to open the road to level six civilization.

Back then, the Awakener told humans that the hallmark technology of Level 6 civilization was the application of various dark matter and dark energy, but he did not say what theory was needed to master that technology.

Now it seems that the theory of everything must be a prerequisite theory. After all, it is the theory that explains the four fundamental forces of the universe, and superstring theory may be the other leg.

One of the reasons why the Awakener originally said that humans had talents was probably because he discovered that humans had the ability to dream in the third person, and the other was because of the various theories that human civilization possessed that were beyond the times.

You should know that humans have not found things like superstring theory in the databases of Chiyan civilization and Kuntai civilization.

This speculation has sparked a superstring fever in human civilization.

Countless scientists have plunged into the research of superstring theory and string concepts. Many ideas that were proposed in the previous Earth era have also been released and then verified and compared with observations one by one using third-person observation time.

Many new theories have also been proposed in this context.

For example, the S-matrix theory based on string collisions and the superstring matrix theory based on the study of the interaction between open and closed strings.
There are also various strange curved spaces explained by the action of vibrating strings. For example, the Möbius strip is the geometry of a single-loop Feynman diagram of colliding open strings, and the Klein bottle is the geometry of a single-loop Feynman diagram of colliding closed strings.

Scientists are also trying to use the interactions of various forms of vibrating strings to explain microscopic high-dimensional structures.

As humans continued to study, they learned more and more about strings. Then suddenly one day, human scientists realized that the problem of the boundary of the small universe that the Awakener had imagined could be explained by superstring theory.

At that time, humans had been exploring for more than a thousand years. Although there were no results, they collected a lot of data. Those observation data are still preserved in the civilization database.

Such discoveries have excited scientists, because if they can be explained, it would indirectly prove the correctness of cosmic strings.

(End of this chapter)