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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "the sequence of metamorphosis" mean "the series of continuous changes"?
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Currently, string theory represents the only advanced approach to a unification of all interactions, including gravity. In
spite of the more than thirty years of its existence, the sequence of metamorphosis it ran through, and the ever more
increasing number of involved physicists, until now, it did not make any empirically testable predictions. Because there
are no empirical data incompatible with the quantum field theoretical standard model of elementary particle physics and
with general relativity, the only motivations for string theory rest in the mutual incompatibility of the standard model
and of general relativity as well as in the metaphysics of the unification program of physics, aimed at a final unified
theory of all interactions including gravity. But actually, it is completely unknown which physically interpretable
principles could form the basis of string theory. At the moment, "string theory" is no theory at all, but rather a
labyrinthic structure of mathematical procedures and intuitions which get their justification from the fact that they, at
least formally, reproduce general relativity and the standard model of elementary particle physics as low energy
approximations. However, there are now strong indications that string theory does not only reproduce the dynamics and
symmetries of our standard model, but a plethora of different scenarios with different low energy nomologies and
symmetries. String theory seems to describe not only our world, but an immense landscape of possible worlds. So far,
all attempts to find a selection principle which could be motivated intratheoretically remained without success. So,
recently the idea that the low energy nomology of our world, and therefore also the observable phenomenology, could
be the result of an anthropic selection from a vast arena of nomologically different scenarios entered string theory.
Although multiverse scenarios and anthropic selection are not only motivated by string theory, but lead also to a
possible explanation for the fine tuning of the universe, they are concepts which transcend the framework defined by the
epistemological and methodological rules which conventionally form the basis of physics as an empirical science.
Abstract
Currently, string theory represents the only advanced approach to a unification of all interactions, including gravity. In
spite of the more than thirty years of its existence, the sequence of metamorphosis it ran through, and the ever more
increasing number of involved physicists, until now, it did not make any empirically testable predictions. Because there
are no empirical data incompatible with the quantum field theoretical standard model of elementary particle physics and
with general relativity, the only motivations for string theory rest in the mutual incompatibility of the standard model
and of general relativity as well as in the metaphysics of the unification program of physics, aimed at a final unified
theory of all interactions including gravity. But actually, it is completely unknown which physically interpretable
principles could form the basis of string theory. At the moment, "string theory" is no theory at all, but rather a
labyrinthic structure of mathematical procedures and intuitions which get their justification from the fact that they, at
least formally, reproduce general relativity and the standard model of elementary particle physics as low energy
approximations. However, there are now strong indications that string theory does not only reproduce the dynamics and
symmetries of our standard model, but a plethora of different scenarios with different low energy nomologies and
symmetries. String theory seems to describe not only our world, but an immense landscape of possible worlds. So far,
all attempts to find a selection principle which could be motivated intratheoretically remained without success. So,
recently the idea that the low energy nomology of our world, and therefore also the observable phenomenology, could
be the result of an anthropic selection from a vast arena of nomologically different scenarios entered string theory.
Although multiverse scenarios and anthropic selection are not only motivated by string theory, but lead also to a
possible explanation for the fine tuning of the universe, they are concepts which transcend the framework defined by the
epistemological and methodological rules which conventionally form the basis of physics as an empirical science.
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NL888 : Does "the sequence of metamorphosis" mean "the series of continuous changes"? It doesn't include the idea of 'continuous', but it does include the idea of 'major': sea changes.
- NL888 : Does "the sequence of metamorphosis" mean "the series of continuous changes"?
- It doesn't include the idea of 'continuous', but it does include the idea of 'major': sea changes.
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NL888: Does "the sequence of metamorphosis" mean "the series of continuous changes"?It doesn't include the idea of 'continuous', but it does include the idea of 'major': sea changes.
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NL888 Does "the sequence of metamorphosis" mean "the series of continuous changes"?Yes.
The only caveat I'd suggest is that metamorphosis is a fixed (repeatable) series of steps, leading to a given result.
Your author uses it here to describe a sort of evolution, which occurred only once.
I'm quite sure he means exactly what you're sugge
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