Infinite Time/Matter/Space, Infinite Possibilities?

[alainbryden]

gravitons travel through 10 dimensions

and what dimensions are those?

pwnd

[Nightstar]

according to string theory(the leading theory of the universe, at the moment) there are many more dimentions that the 4 we percieve( X,Y,Z, and time). there are at least 11, maybe more. as far as i know, they dont have official names.

as for why gravity can escape a black hole... gravitons are not affected by other gravitons. gravity does not pull on other gravity, or if it does, it is rediculously weak, gravitons have no mass, and are weakened by their "tunneling" through the other dimensions, that they can't affect one another. light particles (photons) so not pull on one another either.

[themanwithsauce]

If the universe is truly infinite as some think, then everything can happen but if there is infinite space then there is infinite possibilities. However if sapce is limited then we will only find so much.

[alainbryden]

Read what other people are saying before you post. We got beyond that stupid argument in the second post.

And the string theory and additional dimentions are based on the fact that they can't find any other reasonable explanation for why there are so many DNA possibilities with so few structures. Not that it's a very reasonable theory anyways.

[Jessus]

i'm not completely sure whether i agree with the idea of everything having to occur if there are the three, or four noted variables being infinite.

however, if i were to agree with this, my thoughts would be that it would make more sense to say that everything must happen if time and mass are infinite and space IS finite.


think of it this way; if you have a 4x4 grid that is divided so that there are four spaces for a 1x1 square to occupy. assuming that the square is placed on a random space every so often, then it is very likely, yet not absolute, that the square will at one time have occupied all four spaces. that is to say that every possible event has occured. In this scenario, infinite time with finite space has made every potential happening possible.

however, lets say you were to increase that grid to hold an infinite number of 1x1 spaces for a square to occupy. no matter how many times a square changes spaces, even if it changed to a different one every single time, since space is infinite there would be no chance that the square could sometime have occupied every square.

so no, i dont think that with infinite space everything will occur, however if we don't in fact have infinite space then maybe this theory is plausible.

sorry for the terrible example, and i'm sure there are flaws in it when applied to the universe.