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Articles: Devotion | In quest of infinity - 9
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Depiction of pulsating, coiling little strings... a theory for the ultimate building block of matter. However, when one began to seriously contemplate on the early Universe, it was necessary for quantum mechanics and gravity to confront each other. One was a classical theory while the other mechanics was the framework that had edged classical physics out of the world of the small. Now they were confronting each other eye-ball to eye-ball, like in a great Western! Was it going to be a great shootout, or was it going to be a mutual compromise with each giving away something? Did it have to be a shotgun marriage? So many questions!
Suddenly, from almost nowhere, String Theory appeared, as a theory based on quantum mechanics, focussed on elementary particles and not on gravity. But unknown to itself, it had left the back door open for gravity to get in and settle into a comfortable relationship with the quantum framework! That is what makes many sit up and take serious notice of String Theory, even though it has still to make spectacular predictions verifiable by experiments. The believers all say, “Making verifiable predictions is just a matter of time. A baby can’t run 100 metres in less than ten seconds. But looking at this baby, we can say that one day this kid is going to do it in 9 seconds!” Will it? No one knows at present.
String Theory is not yet everyone’s favourite, but its tight mathematics is constantly attracting brilliant minds. Its mathematical beauty has led many to speculate that since it is beautiful, there is a good chance it is true! Sometimes that recipe [mathematical beauty is truth] has worked but other times, Nature has fooled us! Time alone can give us the answer. All this is just the beginning of a very fascinating story.
What more is there? For that you have to wait for the next instalment! Meanwhile, I would like to make only one comment:
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