Who's stubborn? I think it is the Oregon Attorney who wrote this article. He's a little behind, one test proposed will measure the rotation of a tiny solar system inside a space satellite, looking over time to find gravitational anomalies which may point them to a 4th dimension. A study has only been submitted, but it is being taken seriously. NASA has an actual test to detect an offshoot of the String theory called the Randall-Sundrum braneworld model, which will be underway in 2007. The satellite, called the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), will be launched next year and it can detect the number of black holes in the form of high-energy gamma ray bursts near the orbit of Pluto. Some black holes are existing at very low levels, leaving scientists to speculate that some of them are primordial, as they should have theoretically evaporated. The telescope will also detect whether light getting sucked into these holes are taking different paths which would indicate extra gravitational anomalies present. I don't subscribe to either theory, but there is no way to confirm them yet. As with all major scientific discoveries, there is a camp out there afraid of the extra-dimensional theory, for whatever reason. Also, I heard NASA may detect gravity waves any day now, although I am unfamiliar with what that experiment and the complete ramifications thereof. But string theory the death of science? Give me a break!
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Who's stubborn? I think it is the Oregon Attorney who wrote this article. He's a little behind, one test proposed will measure the rotation of a tiny solar system inside a space satellite, looking over time to find gravitational anomalies which may point them to a 4th dimension. A study has only been submitted, but it is being taken seriously.
NASA has an actual test to detect an offshoot of the String theory called the Randall-Sundrum braneworld model, which will be underway in 2007. The satellite, called the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), will be launched next year and it can detect the number of black holes in the form of high-energy gamma ray bursts near the orbit of Pluto. Some black holes are existing at very low levels, leaving scientists to speculate that some of them are primordial, as they should have theoretically evaporated. The telescope will also detect whether light getting sucked into these holes are taking different paths which would indicate extra gravitational anomalies present.
I don't subscribe to either theory, but there is no way to confirm them yet. As with all major scientific discoveries, there is a camp out there afraid of the extra-dimensional theory, for whatever reason. Also, I heard NASA may detect gravity waves any day now, although I am unfamiliar with what that experiment and the complete ramifications thereof. But string theory the death of science? Give me a break!
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