A mathematical creation myth

The Universe was created by the collision of two branes, when an upward fluctuation on the surface of the lower one touched a downward fluctuation on the surface of the upper one (where up and down are purely relative).

Are you referring to the M theory membrane creation theory?

I call it the general “mish-mash”

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Ah, “murky”. That pretty much encapsulates it. As best I can tell, this still doesn’t address what preceded the initiation of our universe, except maybe to push the problem under the rug by appealing to a continuous expansion/collapse model.

It’s a running theory requiring the 11th dimension, of which incredibly small membranes exist impossibly close together without contact that we notice; but that when contact occurs in causes entire universal disturbances, or causes a universe in the first place. Each membrane is a qualifier of a universe in itself, portal or otherwise; hence the potential to cause a new universe upon the instance of two membranes coming into contact with each other.

The motion of these membranes is something said to be akin to placing your hands together and moving the fingers back and forth united between both hands; this is how it’s thought that more noticeable membrane contacts don’t occur.

It is an attempt to explain how the “Big Bang” (which is referred to as a Big Burp, or Big Bump) occurred without “anything” being there previously.
It attempts to answer the idea of “nothing” in this universe by way of borrowing from the 11th dimension, the power from other universes.

I’m not comfortable with extra dimensions. Am I right in thinking that on two occasions now, on finding holes in the latest theory, the string-people have drafted in further dimensions to plug the gaps? It makes me wonder if they’re on a downward spiral, and how many dimensions they’ll add before even the Asperger mathematicians can’t keep up.

I don’t think the “how can something come from nothing?” paradox is solved here, because where did the branes come from?

Except that the M theory isn’t new; it’s just not talked about much.

M-theory was first drafted in the early '80’s, but everyone dismissed it as crazy talk.
Later, once (and I can’t remember all of the details now) a theory on gravitational reaction proved correct only with accounting for the 11th dimension everyone came back around and M-theory was taken seriously, but this was far later…about the early to mid-90’s.

So it’s not something that string theory just made up to fill in holes; it’s an over 20 year old theory that initially strove to understand some anomalies with not string theory, but classical physics/quantum physics concepts of gravity.

In fact, gravity makes more sense in the M-theory than without the 11th dimension, as the 11th dimension allows for gravity to be a force that is primary in another universe and residual to our universe.

This calculates out smoother as gravity, by ratio, is the weakest force known to science, yet it comes from the largest masses known to science.
If, however, it is a residual bleed-over from another universe, of which we are only getting a small part of the entire force of gravity in this universe, then the mathematics seems to line-up more clearly with the force verses it’s mass.

To be true to the explination of M-theory, however, M-theory is truly a meta-string theory.
In this, I mean to say that M-theory takes all previous five string theories and umbrella’s them as the part of the same theory.

M-theory states that the other 5 theories are like 5 sides to a pyramid, whereby each theory is only representing part of what makes up the entire construct; that only after assembling all 5 sides together do you end up with a pyramid, and not by any one side alone.

To do this, a unifier is needed; a method of which all concepts are able to bond; a glue or mortar.
This glue is the 11th dimension in M-theory.

With my belief of God, my mind finds it relevant there has to be other planes of existence. As to how many, that isn’t answerable at this point. :slight_smile: