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Riding on a Cosmic String
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RE: Riding on a Cosmic String
Rayaan Wrote:In this thread, what I'm about to explain is a well-supported evidence of divine revelation, and thus, proving that there is a greater chance for the existence of a Creator.
The attempt will be as welcome as it is amusing, but none the less, let's address your ideas.

Rayaan Wrote:What the Bridge looks like
I and everyone else can see your quotes and links, so I'll skip them for the purpose of my reply here, though they won't be ignored in further points I make.

Rayaan Wrote:1. They are both strings which are long and narrower than the width of a hair.
Now, having actually read cover-to-cover "the Elegant Universe" and I even recently watched a 90-minute NOVA special describing in detail what string theory is and where it has come from in the grand sceme of science.
That being said, your concept of what string theory is is utter nonsense and appears to be a jumble of out-of-context quote mining.
Here's why:

For starters, the concept of your "straight bridge" or "Bridge of Hell" as I've seen it called, is, as you say, thinner than a human hair and sharper than a knife. It is only visible to Allah, apparently, and it is suspended over hell where paradise (or some version of) awaits at the other end where sinners fall off, the righteous are speeded across like lightning and so on.

The strings of string theory are the smallest things to exist, one dimensional, and vibrate. Some versions of string theory are looped into itself and others have the ends of the string taper off into nothing.

Also, where is this:
Quote:These hooks will snatch the people according to their deeds. Some people will be ruined because of their evil deeds, and some will be cut into pieces and fall down in Hell, but will be saved afterwards, when Allah has finished the judgments among His slaves, and intends to take out of the Fire whoever He wishes to take out from among those who used to testify that none had the right to be worshipped but Allah
...in string theory?
Or hell or anything else in your quotes or otherwise?

Further, strings in string theory are one-dimensional ribbons that are the smallest things to theoretically exist. Some versions of string theory are closed loops whereas others have open-ended loops and others still may include both. They vibrate at differing wavelengths to form pretty much everything.

Cosmic strings are, as stated by wikipedia:
Quote:Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum manifold associated to this symmetry breaking is not simply connected. It is expected that at least one string per Hubble volume is formed.

I shouldn't have to mention that neither cosmic strings nor Allah's gate of hell have anything to do with one another, other than being small. Neither are described as having any properties like one another. Also note that neither hell nor paradise are connected or a part of cosmic strings.

All you appear to have done is drawn the most basic of similarities (being called a "string" and being small in relative size) to one another and called it a 'cosmic coincidence of unlikely porportions.

I should also note that you contradict yourself because your religious quote states that the string is only visible to Allah but your cosmic string quote literally states that such a thing should be visible across the night sky.

Rayaan Wrote:2. The bridge will have hooks on the sides. Cosmic strings also has what physicists call “cusps” and “kinks” on them which are sharp and pointed ends on a cosmic string.
This is absolutely nonsense. According to your links, the 'kinks and cusps' of cosmic strings shoot gamma radiation out into space and bend space in a manner that has temporal and space-bendign applications to a civilization capable enough to take advantage of it.
Your bridge of hell has literal hooks and cusps that actually are used to hook and cusp things. The use of those terms are entirely different between your quoted sources.
Your bridge of hell is even supposed to use these for a specific purpose, to which cosmic strings have no such purpose.

Rayaan Wrote:3. Some people will cross the bridge as fast as lightning. Similarly, objects that get attached to a cosmic string can also travel at extremely fast speeds.
If by 'extremely fast' you mean "as quickly as the wink of an eye, some others as quick as lightning, a strong wind, fast horses or she-camels".
Cosmic strings can only transport you anywhere with the aid of yet-undiscovered technology and doesn't transport you across anything or to anywhere specific. As you no doubt know, this is completely different from your religious source material.
Which is to say that transporting something at relativistic speeds isn't 'as quick as the wink of an eye, lightning, or any of the mentioned speeds.

Rayaan Wrote:My Hypothesis

The amazing similarities that I mentioned above strongly indicate that the bridge to Heaven is a cosmic string (although it could be something else, too).
If by something else you mean 'imaginary' then yes.
Your connections are tenuous super-generalizations that breaks apart as soon as you get past the most basic of similarities.
That being that cosmic strings are just like a hooked bridge that you can travel really fast across.
Yes, cosmic strings have no specific destination, they aren't strings so much as a fold in space, they aren't suspended over hell, they do not have an 'over' in which to have hooks suspended, the hooks described in connection with cosmic strings do not do anything like described in your religious text, Allah does not bring is to, help us cross, or have anything to do with crossing a cosmic string, we do not, in fact, cross cosmic strings, when using cosmic strings - we require the technological help of machinery yet invented (assuming that cosmic strings and the means to use them even exist or are possible), and so on.

As such, this is blatently grasping at straws here.
The only semblence of 'divine revelation' here is essentially trying to fit two things together that do not fit together.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

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Messages In This Thread
Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - January 5, 2011 at 1:29 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Darwinian - January 5, 2011 at 1:33 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - January 5, 2011 at 1:44 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Anomalocaris - January 5, 2011 at 3:26 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by reverendjeremiah - June 5, 2011 at 1:36 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Thor - January 5, 2011 at 1:51 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - January 5, 2011 at 2:18 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by DeistPaladin - January 5, 2011 at 2:34 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Thor - January 5, 2011 at 4:28 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by thesummerqueen - January 5, 2011 at 3:49 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by reverendjeremiah - June 5, 2011 at 1:48 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by AtheistPhil - January 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - January 5, 2011 at 4:59 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by DeistPaladin - January 5, 2011 at 5:33 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by TheDarkestOfAngels - January 5, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Autumnlicious - January 5, 2011 at 6:46 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - January 8, 2011 at 7:57 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by TheDarkestOfAngels - January 8, 2011 at 2:44 pm
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - June 5, 2011 at 4:49 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Violet - June 5, 2011 at 4:57 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - June 5, 2011 at 5:06 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by KichigaiNeko - June 5, 2011 at 5:11 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by Rayaan - June 5, 2011 at 5:21 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by KichigaiNeko - June 5, 2011 at 5:35 am
RE: Riding on a Cosmic String - by LastPoet - June 5, 2011 at 1:48 pm



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