History of String theory

	Revision 41 . . October 31, 2001 6:39 am by (logged).111.13.xxx [time dilation is a relativistic, not a quantum, effect]
	Revision 40 . . (edit) October 30, 2001 10:17 pm by Sodium
	Revision 39 . . October 30, 2001 8:19 pm by Sodium [started on explaining extra dimensions, but needs more work - exactly what part do these play in string theory (the M-theory page is quite complicated to understand)]
	Revision 38 . . October 30, 2001 6:11 am by (logged).111.13.xxx [only 3 dimensions of space; make clear that its the universe measured along the dimension, not the dimension, which is subatomic]
	Revision 37 . . (edit) October 30, 2001 4:43 am by Taw [format fix]
	Revision 36 . . (edit) October 29, 2001 7:24 pm by Sodium
	Revision 35 . . October 29, 2001 3:20 pm by (logged).111.13.xxx [deleting number 11. i'm sure its wrong -- only 10 or 26 dimensions allowed]
	Revision 34 . . October 29, 2001 10:40 am by (logged).111.13.xxx
	Revision 33 . . (edit) October 10, 2001 10:31 pm by AxelBoldt
	Revision 32 . . (edit) October 10, 2001 8:19 am by (logged).104.216.xxx
	Revision 31 . . October 7, 2001 9:26 am by Simon J Kissane
	Revision 30 . . October 7, 2001 9:22 am by Simon J Kissane [tried to add some more info on what string theory is]
	Revision 29 . . October 7, 2001 8:33 am by Eean
	Revision 28 . . October 7, 2001 8:31 am by Eean
	Revision 27 . . October 6, 2001 3:31 am by Zundark [string theory = superstring theory]
	Revision 26 . . (edit) October 6, 2001 3:11 am by Sodium
	Revision 25 . . October 6, 2001 3:04 am by Sodium [new]
	Revision 24 . . October 6, 2001 1:00 am by Zundark [deleted (if there was anything there that wasn't ripped off from another site, I couldn't find it)]
	Revision 23 . . October 2, 2001 5:17 pm by (logged).5.70.xxx

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Changed: 11c11

Our minds have a hard time understanding extra dimensions because it is only the three spatial dimensions we have control over (time is also hard to picture as a dimension). Although these dimensions do affect our world, by the time they scale up to our size their direct influence seems to have been cancelled out. This is similar to many quantum effects such as [time dilation]?; Travelling very fast has an effect on our time relative to other people, but at the speeds we travel these effects are miniscule.

Our minds have a hard time understanding extra dimensions because it is only the three spatial dimensions we have control over (time is also hard to picture as a dimension). Although these dimensions do affect our world, by the time they scale up to our size their direct influence seems to have been cancelled out. This is similar to many relativistic effects such as [time dilation]?; Travelling very fast has an effect on our time relative to other people, but at the speeds we travel these effects are miniscule.