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Spiritual folk now have evidence supporting other 'worlds'

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SirFshAlot

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nonspiritual people often scoff at those who believe in a god because there hasn't been any support for realms that can't be seen, verified, or tested

Now, thanks to the Superstring theory, very popular in the physics community, there is strong mathematical support for realms that can not be seen or tested.

The superstring theory asserts that we live in a universe with 11 dimensions. The three spatial dimensions we are familiar with, the dimension of time, and 7 additional dimensions.
Theorists describing this also talk of "parallel universes". That perhaps their are 'worlds' right where we are that we can't perceive.

Before this theory, there was a huge gap between people of faith that believed in what can't be seen, and the scientific community that requires testability.
But which side is changing and narrowing the gap?

At any rate, the people that believe in a god must be very appreciative of the supersting proponents for offering support to their beliefs in the unseen.
 
here you'll need this

*hands sirfshalot flamesuit*

btw, superstring theory sounds fine and dandy but there's this thing in physics called the anthropic principle which i find much more convincing. google it.
 
I won't discount anything... the universe is a lot more complex than we could ever comprehend, so I am sure there are things out there that I couldn't comprehend.
 
Superstring theory is old.
Nor is there any proof of it's existance.
If there was, it would shatter religious footing.
 
Originally posted by: maziwanka
great logical jump to assume one of the dimensions is spiritual. i dont have patience for this.
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you seem to have misread, or have the faulty logic
try again

I never asserted that superstring theory inferred a spiritual dimension, rather, that there is a trend in science to believe in unseen realms.
As spiritual people do.
 
Super string theory remains unverified and in fact is unverifiable with current technology. So to extrapolate a metaphysical realm, that is by definition unverifiable, from an unverified theory requires a lot of faith. Then again the religious types are accustom to this.
 
Originally posted by: maziwanka
great logical jump to assume one of the dimensions is spiritual. i dont have patience for this.
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It's more like assuming that other dimensions are spiritual to us. How this proves the existence of gods, I do not know.
 
Please don't confuse the lack of palpability with the lack of testability. Many of the more significant breakthroughs in physics were based on entirely abstract concepts only quantifiable through mathematics. It often wasn't until decades, sometimes even centuries, later that it was observed. The predictions are indeed testable, and it has nothing to do with a leap-of-faith.

The "many-worlds" view is quite old, and its place in string theory is nothing original. There are many different interpretations of quantum theory, and one is that for every quantum state there exists another world in a superposition of all those states. The reality of what happens when a quantum state is measured is indeed testable (John Bell's inequality principle asserts this), and how you choose to explain it (many worlds view, Copenhagen Interpretation, transactional theory, Bohm's theory, ad nauseum) is really just a matter of individual perception.
 
Originally posted by: RossGr
Super string theory remains unverified and in fact is unverifiable with current technology. So to extrapolate a metaphysical realm, that is by definition unverifiable, from an unverified theory requires a lot of faith. Then again the religious types are accustom to this.
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I saw Elvis last week.
 
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i just love how you label a "theory" as "evidence"
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I love how you don't know what a theory is.

A theory is a hypothesis strongly supported by evidence.

Hypothesis = educated guess
Theory = well tested and supported hypothesis
Law = Theory to the next level 🙂
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i just love how you label a "theory" as "evidence"
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I love how you don't know what a theory is.

A theory is a hypothesis strongly supported by evidence.

Hypothesis = educated guess
Theory = well tested and supported hypothesis
Law = Theory to the next level 🙂
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A theory is also a un-provable opinion.

Does Einsteins theory of Relativity ring a bell?

 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i just love how you label a "theory" as "evidence"
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I love how you don't know what a theory is.

A theory is a hypothesis strongly supported by evidence.

Hypothesis = educated guess
Theory = well tested and supported hypothesis
Law = Theory to the next level 🙂
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define evidence now, obviously i'm not gonna survive the next round of Darwinism
 
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i just love how you label a "theory" as "evidence"
Click to expand...

I love how you don't know what a theory is.

A theory is a hypothesis strongly supported by evidence.

Hypothesis = educated guess
Theory = well tested and supported hypothesis
Law = Theory to the next level 🙂
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define evidence now, obviously i'm not gonna survive the next round of Darwinism
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I'm sure you can use dictionary.com
 
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