Theosis

THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD
PROF. M. M. NINAN
The new research — by Sang-Woo Kim of Osaka University, Jun Nishimura of the High Energy Accelerator
Research Organization (KEK) and Asato Tsuchiya of Shizuoka University — shows that string theory
plausibly accounts for the universe's origin and its apparent 3D structure. "We have been able to see how
three directions start to expand at some point in time," Nishimura told Life's Little Mysteries. [Does the
Universe Have an Edge?]
http://www.livescience.com/17454-string-theory-big-bang.html
Many theoretical physicists (among them Stephen Hawking, Edward Witten, and Juan Maldacena) believe
that string theory is a step towards the correct fundamental description of nature. This is because string
theory allows for the consistent combination of quantum field theory and general relativity, agrees with
general insights in quantum gravity such as the holographic principle and black hole thermodynamics, and
because it has passed many non-trivial checks of its internal consistency. According to hawking in particular,
"M-theory is the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe." [
The starting point for string theory is the idea that the point-like particles of elementary particle physics can
also be modeled as one-dimensional objects called strings. According to string theory, strings can oscillate
in many ways. On distance scales larger than the string radius, each oscillation mode gives rise to a different
species of particle, with its mass, charge, and other properties determined by the string's dynamics. Splitting
and recombination of strings correspond to particle emission and absorption, giving rise to the interactions
between particles. An analogy for strings' modes of vibration is a guitar string's production of multiple distinct
musical notes. In this analogy, different notes correspond to different particles.
Since string theory is believed to be a mathematically consistent quantum mechanical theory, the existence
of this graviton state implies that string theory is a theory of quantum gravity.
Open and Closed Strings, courtesy of CERN, Geneva Switzerland
Vibrating circular membrane
String theory includes both open strings, which have two
distinct endpoints, and closed strings, which form a
complete loop. The two types of string behave in slightly
different ways, yielding different particle types. For example,
all string theories have closed string graviton modes, but only open strings can correspond to the particles
known as photons. Because the two ends of an open string can always meet and connect, forming a closed
string, all string theories contain closed strings.
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