A few days left to check this film out...

[Dotard]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...type=&aq=f

More neat stuffs

[Darwinian]

I've placed this in the Videos forum..

[Rob]

I watch the time documentary on the Iplayer and membranes part was very interesting. I wish he went into what sort of evidence would be needed to support the hypothesis. In any case, Its a more plausible idea than "god done it".
its stuff like that and the rest of this thread that makes me want to go to get degrees in maths, physics, chemistry and biology after I've finished my programming course.

[Rob]

If anyone still wants to see this video a friend of mine has found a proxy that works with it and he uses it to watch the iplayer from Belgium.
ip: 212.241.180.239 port: 81
You should set your browser to use the proxy on a pattern which only uses the proxy for the iplayer. That way it wont interfere with your usual browsing.

[Tiberius]

I watch the time documentary on the Iplayer and membranes part was very interesting. I wish he went into what sort of evidence would be needed to support the hypothesis. In any case, Its a more plausible idea than "god done it".

This is the general problem with string "theory". A theory in science is an explanation of observable facts. A theory in theoretical physics is a theory of unobserved presumed facts that need to be true in order for the rest of theoretical physics (and usually general physics as well) to work. As such, there is debate about whether string theory should be called a scientific theory, as it is unobserved and cannot be tested. This is a problem you will always run into when you are discussing dimensions of space-time that we can't detect of course...

[Darwinian]

Although string theory explains things at a sub atomic level very well and could even be the start of a theory of everything, at the moment, it cannot be observed.

Strings are so small that they can never be directly observed and no experiment can be done to 'prove' their existence. C.E.R.N. not withstanding..

So, the question is, is string theory science or philosophy? Only time will tell.

[LukeMC]

Undetectable being with no evidence for its existence = lunacy
Undetectable strings with no evidence for their existence = ?

[Tiberius]

Undetectable being with no evidence for its existence = lunacy
Undetectable strings with no evidence for their existence = ?

Nobody has claimed that strings control the universe, only that they might exist to hold together the fabric of space-time. I'm not sure it's science, but it is certainly scientific (if you get my meaning).

[CoxRox]

Undetectable being with no evidence for its existence = lunacy
Undetectable strings with no evidence for their existence = ?

This was a comparison I was trying to make. Strings- God, they're both far fetched and unproveable.

[LukeMC]

If the mathematical models fit and it explains our universe perfectly then fair enough, but it would still be based on an unverified/unverifiable premise. I suppose you're right. Scientific, but not science.