Rayaan Wrote:I'm not talking about string theory. The topic is about cosmic strings.Good god. I'm aware of the difference between cosmic strings and the strings of string theory.
The strings in string theory (which are called superstrings) and a cosmic string are two different things entirely (even though there's a relation between them).
Two things:
1) I don't know if you know this but cosmic strings are in string theory. In fact, it's where they're theorized to exist - ergo that model of the universe and cosmic strings are related.
2) I mentioned all this for a reason. That reason being to connect the two for the above reason.
Rayaan Wrote:A cusp on a cosmic string does emit gamma radiation which I quoted before: "As cosmic strings oscillate, certain fast-moving parts of them called 'cusps' should produce narrow, well-directed beams of gamma rays that could give an observer crossing their path the effect of sharp bursts." Also, the space-bending properties of a cosmic string are created by the enormous density which causes the space-time to be warped around them (like that of a black hole).... yeah, about that...
Wikipedia: Cosmic Strings Wrote:The violent oscillations of cosmic strings generically lead to the formation of cusps and kinks. These in turn cause parts of the string to pinch off into isolated loops. These loops have a finite lifespan and decay (primarily) via gravitational radiation. This radiation which leads to the strongest signal from cosmic strings may in turn be detectable in gravitational wave experiments, such as LIGO and LISA. An important open question is to what extent do the pinched off loops backreact or change the initial state of the emitting cosmic string—such backreaction effects are almost always neglected in computations and are known to be important, even for order of magnitude estimates.These strings don't simply have cusps/kinks - they form because of the string's oscillations and as a result severely deform the entire string. Those have a finite lifespan.
... but yes. People an observer will certainly notice the sharp bursts of gamma radiation, which has nothing to do with anything in regard to the religious connotions. You're grasping at straws here.
Rayaan Wrote:I'm not exactly sure how a civilization will be able to take advantage of a cosmic string, though. I think that only God will bring such a thing closer to us in the future when the time comes.It has numerous properties that can be taken advantage of by an advanced civilization. If these strings exist, I'm far more certain we'll be able to take advantage of it than your fantasy coming true.
Rayaan Wrote:That can't be known because the "hooks" on the bridge could be literal objects to the same extent as the "cusps" on a cosmic string are. Why? Because during the Prophet's time, there were no such scientific terms such as "cusps" and "cosmic strings" in the Arabic language. Therefore, God revealed it to him by using simpler words and in a way that people can understand him, and yet, what is amazing is that these words are very much analogous to the hook-like structures on a cosmic string.Only in the most general sense of the terms. Even so, neither of these things act like one another, are used like one another, or have properties like one another.
Aside from a similar name to describe their shape, there's nothing similar between them in any significant manner.
Rayaan Wrote:The Prophet even said that the bridge is thinner than a hair. Of course, he couldn't have said that the bridge is "thinner than the nucleus of atom" since such words didn't even exist during time, hence the words "thinner than a hair" are used in the Islamic narrations. And there is no contradiction.So instead of making a description that would allow the listener to understand what the object actually was, the allmighty used general descriptive terms that are unlike a cosmic string in any way except in the vaguest and most general terms imaginable?
Not to mention that the Bridge has properties about it completely unlike a cosmic string (the ability to actually use the hooks for hooking, which supposedly appear to be similar to the hooks of a particular tree, according to your quotes.
Bull, I say.
Rayaan Wrote:Also, we are told that the bridge will be sharper than a sword. This means that the bridge has a characteristic of sharpness to it. What about a cosmic string then? Well, after looking at some articles on cosmic strings, I learned that they behave like a powerful superconductor, which means that that they posses a large amount of electric current. See this article. And in that sense, my idea is that the terms "sharpness" (of the bridge) and "electric currents" (of a cosmic string) could be viewed as pretty much analogous to each other because both will give us a feeling of pain or being scratched as by cutting into our skin.The string has the characteristics of a proton-thick stringed-out black hole under certain conditions.
Wikipedia Wrote:A cosmic string about a kilometer in length may be more massive than the Earth. However general relativity predicts that the gravitational potential of a straight string vanishes: there is no gravitational force on static surrounding matter. The only gravitational effect of a straight cosmic string is a relative deflection of matter (or light) passing the string on opposite sides (a purely topological effect). A closed cosmic string gravitates in a more conventional way.
That is really interested and something I didn't know until just now. Either the string has enormous gravitational pull (from being looped) or zero gravitational effect on surrounding matter except in the manner in which light is bent around it.
Neither of those things is coincidental with your ideas.
Rayaan Wrote:Cosmic strings could theoretically enable information to move from one place to another. They could even transport us into a higher-dimensional brane (where Heaven might exist). So, this could be one of the purposes of a cosmic string since it acts like a "bridge" that leads to a different place. Nobody knows for sure where it may lead us, though, but according to my theory that the bridge called "As-Sirat" is a type of cosmic string it would serve as narrow pathway to a different reality which is more beautiful than the universe, which is Heaven.Anything that allows the movement of energy can 'transmit information.' Even black holes do this, even though that transmission goes exactly one way for a long, long time.
Let me know when you come up with a way that makes C-strings different from other forms of informaiton transmission.
... or if you find ANY evidence of "hey could even transport us into a higher-dimensional brane" or a purpose for them as defined by whatever created them.
Rayaan Wrote:The bridge that I'm talking about will transport us to Heaven (according to the Islamic belief), whereas a cosmic string could also transport us to a different place, with the only difference being that nobody knows if a cosmic string is connected to Heaven or not.... right. Let me know if you find any evidence of C-strings being able to transport anyone to any paralell dimension.
The theory from which they were spawned in no way describe them as portals to another brane..
Rayaan Wrote:However, since there are already so many similarities between the bridge and a cosmic string, it is more likely that the bridge is a cosmic string than anything else, and if this is true, then it should also follow that a cosmic string can act like a bridge to Heaven since the two objects (the bridge and a cosmic string) are very possibly one and the same thing.These are fictitious similarities created by a biased imagination with no evidence or even theory to back *anything* up.
Rayaan Wrote:In my original post, I have already provided the quotes and links which say that an object attached to a cosmic string could travel at an incredible speed (and even allow time travel) and this idea matches with the hadith which says that some of the believers will cross the bridge as fast as "lightning" or like the "wink of an eye" or like a "strong wind," etc. There is no contradiction.There is a contradiction because the manner you described required as-of-yet undiscovered technology across a bridge not at all described in your religious texts to be in space or nearly large enough for this to work. The speeds described are far too slow to produce any of the super-speeds described in the theoretical ways in which this string could be used for faster-than-light or time-travel related purposes.
Further, the manner to which the bridge and the C-string are used are ENTIRELY different. The bridge is literally stated to be used like a bridge that happens to be very thin that can also hook sinners to it and fling them to hell when they've sinned too much for the almighty.
C-Strings are NOTHING like that. You can easily state the opposite all you want, but all you're doing is grossly generalizing so much that you're fitting together two puzzle pieces that don't fit together at all by cutting off the sides until they're both square enough to fit.
Rayaan Wrote:No, most likely the bridge is not imaginary because I have supported this with several different reasons (by making connections to it with a cosmic string).I know. These connections are clearly flawed.
Rayaan Wrote:1. They are both strings which are long and narrower than the width of a hair.One is a one-dimensional filiment that exists in the vacuum of space that is either nothing but a topological oddity in the shape of the universe or a very thin and long black hole (or similarly dense object) during certain finite conditions.
The other is a goddamned string that acts as a bridge to heaven. A literal bridge that can be crossed and fallen off of.
They are clearly not the same except for the fact that they're both long and thin.
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.The bridge has literal hooks that attatch to the chosen in regards to their earthly deeds that resemble the hooks of a particular plant I never heard of before.
The Cosmic String has end-points called cusps that whips out radiation as it oscillates.
The best you could could come up with in regards to their similarity is that they have a name defined as being similar between cusps and hooks.
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.People with goodness in their hearts can be whipped across the hair-thin bridge like lightning.
A civilization with an advanced understanding of cosmic strings and the technical advantage of beign able to use the string for beneficial purposes (or magic, if god does this instead**) to jet across certain points in the universe at faster-than-light speeds or backward time travel.
Inidividuals crossing the bridge not only literally cross a bridge but do so suspended over hell to get to paradise at a defined speed several orders of magnitude below FTL speeds and no mention at all of time travel. Not to mention the fact that physical contact with the bridge, hooks, or other parts is required for this.
Note that C-strings are always super-dense and thus cannot be touched by anything wishing to make it anywhere for the same reason you never touch a black hole.
**=though if god could just magic someone across according to their deeds, then the entire idea of a bridge with described properties seems entirely pointless.
Rayaan Wrote:4. The bridge will be very sharp whereas a cosmic string can emit powerful electric currents. In this manner, both of the objects can cause us to get scratched on our skin and bodies.No, the bridge will scratch you. The C-string will erase you from existance by sucking up all of your atoms into itself. HUGE difference.
Rayaan Wrote:5. The hooks on the bridge are able to "snatch" people according to their deeds, which means that they can move on the bridge, while the tip of a cosmic string cusp moves at the speed of light.Those things have nothing to do with one another!
Your arguements are getting weaker. Either concede this point or don't but you don't have a leg to stand on, as I've easily demonstrated.
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
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
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
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan