JTfM Vol 1 No 1 2008 - ONLINE EDITION - Inclusionality Research

Superchannel—Inside and Beyond Superstring
only the weight but also the size of a thing in motion. It is not different with light which as
quanta is in transfigural outlook not a solid but flexible folds that are fast. Light can unfold
very quickly to fold space to itself. In addition to compactness, a fold can also be flexible.
Flexibility has to do with the degree of compactness of a fold. A compact fold takes longer
to unfold than a knit fold.
We go back to the point of classical mathematics and its number. The point is an atom.
It was called the most indivisible part until it was discovered that this atom still contains
other tiny particles. The thought of the atom containing other parts which are called particles
originated from infinitesimals in classical mathematics. 1, which is big and discrete, can be
broken into parts to become thousands of atoms which can be numbered as 1,2,3,..because
they are small yet discrete. These parts can still be broken into fractional parts. In the language
of physics, these parts, ½, 1/3, and others are definite further tiny parts which are
stand-alone parts. These are called the quantum numbers. They represent the masses of parts
of an atom which itself was originally regarded as the indivisible part of a thing until its parts
were discovered.
It is easier to get to the atom through the point and the number of classical mathematics
which produces them than through a book of explanation in physics. The quantum 1 has
all the characteristics of the counting number 1 of classical and modern mathematics. It
stands for a particle that is a point that has a mass, therefore a point-mass. This 1 can be broken
into its very smallest part until a stage is reached that it cannot continue. This is the stage
at which the string comes in. Instead of a particle, a string is now introduced. A string has
the shortest length or it is the least infinitesimal. This is the very stage in which the string
replaces the particles as definite vibrations.
The string has length. This length has a number. Like the infinitesimal of calculus, the
string fears the zero. Its length tends towards the zero without reaching it, stopping as it were
as a decimal with thirty-two zeros that ends with 1. The string asks the point-like particle to
be seen as a vibrating string of the infinitesimal length. Alone it is one-dimensional. This is
called the open string. Like an Euclidean line, it ends with points which are particles. The
two ends can loop to become a circle. This is called closed string.
So having said all this, how does a particle, the component of an atom, which could be
a photon or quark, transform into a string? We get an answer from Alberto Güijosa:
“The essential idea behind string theory is this: all of the different 'fundamental ' parti
cles of the Standard Model are really just different manifestations of one basic object:
a string. How can that be? Well, we would ordinarily picture an electron, for instance,
as a point with no internal structure. A point cannot do anything but move. But, if
string theory is correct, then under an extremely powerful 'microscope' we would real
ize that the electron is not really a point, but a tiny loop of string. A string can do
something aside from moving--- it can oscillate in different ways. If it oscillates a cer
tain way, then from a distance, unable to tell it is really a string, we see an electron.
But if it oscillates some other way, well, then we call it a photon, or a quark, or a ...
you get the idea. So, if string theory is correct, the entire world is made of strings!”
Yes, this is correct for a whole world of virtual reality made up of tiny bits and bytes that
vibrate on their own, but cannot hold true for a natural world of dynamic relational holes in
which all is flow!
The string is fundamentally a point particle. This we shall explore in the next section.
The string only helps to consolidate the discreteness of the point-mass at the quantum level
with the addition of the condition that makes the line in Euclidean geometry. If open it has
two endpoints which is what is required of Euclidean line. When it oscillates is loops back
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