String theory and God

 

Space-time point of view of string theorists led them to the speculation that god actually is made of material substance that leaves in another world (brane). The Can String Theory detect God video that is made by Nova and features Brian Greene tries to convey the above assumption. If that’s the case, then we probably should find paradise and hell with sinners burning in it at that brane as well.   It is not clear if this video is a vehicle to attract religious people to science and draw their support for string theory or to solve the puzzle of spirituality. But this kind of assumptions turns god and heavens to an external entity made of matter that dwell in a space –time setup.   It also substantiates the old beliefs that are within the frameworks of existing faiths. These outdated beliefs are far from scientific principles and logical thinking.

It seems to me that spirituality is an internal realization. It evolves from deeper levels of consciousness. Consciousness does not contain matter, space or time. My conjecture about consciousness is fully detailed in related chapters.

 

Elegant mathematics of string theory

 

Roger Penrose believes that mathematics is a vast platonic domain and physical reality just uses a portion of this domain. Therefore in his opinion mathematics has an actual external existence⁵. In the contrary the lateralization theory of brain (explained in quantum brain chapter) suggests that mathematics is a fabrication of left brain hemisphere. According to the theory, in his analytical task to explain the physical reality, the left brain construct a logical mathematical framework to be used as reference.

It seems that the mathematical structures created in super string theory supports the brain lateralization theory version of the origin of mathematics. String theorists were successful to create all kind of math equations to support their imagined many-dimensional reality. Amongst them is the so called Grassmann variables which lead to strange relations like

 

AB = -BA or

A² = -A² = 0 and

B² = -B² = 0⁹¹.

Obviously the above equations cannot be related to known physics. Mathematical elegance is the back-bone of the string theory. However, the fact that mathematics followed every originally accepted and later on rejected branch of string theory puts this main supporting substantiation under question.

 

Denying Singularity

Underneath, I will address the occasions where String Theory faces the singularity (Sub-Planck arena in this model's terms).

Etienne Klein & Marc Lachieze-Rey show how string theorists tried to open the spatial field by adding extra dimensions in order to bypass singularities to no veil. Even after adding numerous hypothetical elements to physical world, they are still facing with singularities but from a new angle.

 

“One of the motivations of those who are working on this theory is to get rid of troublesome singularities in field theory calculations…Quantum Theory gets around these difficulties with a method that is as artificial as it is effective. It is called renormalization…(String Theory) deals from outset with the structure of space and elementary objects...Sure enough, problems of singularities show up in a totally different way in that string theory.” 2