1. What is a theory, and what is a philosophy?
A theory is an educated guess, but with actual hard facts to prove that the theory does have a very high chance of actually being right, whereas a philosophy is just a way of thought, a kind of possibility to allow people to understand things that don't make sense. However, apart from a belief, a philosophy is a kind of explination rather than a prediction, the explination might not necessarily be right, but many people will have approved it to be a philosophy.
2. Will string theory become a religion?
Depends on how you look at the theory. This is indeed Physics being discussed, and Science and Religion have always been contradicting each other. Personnally, I think religion is a way, as a philosophy is, to explain things we don't understand. It's also somewhat intailed with Mythology and the realm of uncertainty and none reality like based. Now this could totally be wrong, but I think on some level, even though we are not able to test or see the string theory in action, from the equations, I think they have somewhat already proved that string theory truly does exist. And that were to be true, then there will be no Mythology in contact what so ever, because you are talking about a theory as real as the Big Bang, and that's more of a Scientific way of looking at things rather than a religious point of view.
3. What are five of the questions they are trying to answer in this scientific and intellectual pursuit.
1. What laws discovered in history can be proved as false and which can prove that string theory does exist?
2. How is general relativity, the law of the big world, fit with the quantum mechanics, the laws for the micro-world, and how do they both exist without contradicting each other in one universe?
3. How do we prove that string theory is correct?
4. What kind of world are we living in and what are things that we haven't seen before (Ex: extra dimensions)?
5. What happened to start this theory and how will it end?
A theory is an educated guess, but with actual hard facts to prove that the theory does have a very high chance of actually being right, whereas a philosophy is just a way of thought, a kind of possibility to allow people to understand things that don't make sense. However, apart from a belief, a philosophy is a kind of explination rather than a prediction, the explination might not necessarily be right, but many people will have approved it to be a philosophy.
2. Will string theory become a religion?
Depends on how you look at the theory. This is indeed Physics being discussed, and Science and Religion have always been contradicting each other. Personnally, I think religion is a way, as a philosophy is, to explain things we don't understand. It's also somewhat intailed with Mythology and the realm of uncertainty and none reality like based. Now this could totally be wrong, but I think on some level, even though we are not able to test or see the string theory in action, from the equations, I think they have somewhat already proved that string theory truly does exist. And that were to be true, then there will be no Mythology in contact what so ever, because you are talking about a theory as real as the Big Bang, and that's more of a Scientific way of looking at things rather than a religious point of view.
3. What are five of the questions they are trying to answer in this scientific and intellectual pursuit.
1. What laws discovered in history can be proved as false and which can prove that string theory does exist?
2. How is general relativity, the law of the big world, fit with the quantum mechanics, the laws for the micro-world, and how do they both exist without contradicting each other in one universe?
3. How do we prove that string theory is correct?
4. What kind of world are we living in and what are things that we haven't seen before (Ex: extra dimensions)?
5. What happened to start this theory and how will it end?
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STRING THEORY!!!!!!!
