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where & how is the 'configuration' encoded? [we don't know, right] Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions? Also when I see the term 'harmonic osci
by jaquers 5y ago
where & how is the 'configuration' encoded? [we don't know, right] Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions? Also when I see the term 'harmonic oscillations', I think of plucking a string -- it seems so elegant for the physical particles to be manifestations of higher dimensional ~~vibrating~~ oscillating strings :) (thinking of flat-lander analogy)
gp's premise about learning with the multi-particle landscape first sort of blew my mind.
- astrange 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
- lisper 5y ago> we don't know, right Right. > Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions? No. The higher dimensions of string theory are actual physical dimensions. Configuration space dimensions are pure mathematical abstractions, and there are potentially an infinite number of them, one for every degree of freedom in the system. Look up "Hilbert space" if you want the gory details.
- jaquers 5y agothanks