Ahh… Quantum Mechanics. (Part Three)

String Theory to the rescue!! Ta Da!! In string theory the constituents that make up everything in the universe are tiny (and I mean tiny!) vibrating strings. These strings contain the information that were sucked into the black hole’s singularity. Please don’t ask me how. I don’t know. A little faith here. I’ll get that info as soon as I can.

String cheese and string theory? Not the same thing. See string theory is a complex set of theories that say that the smallest, smallest, smallest, smallest… (Need I go on? OK Smallest!) thing that can ever be is a string. Right now. String. Purely Mathematical. Can’t be proved except mathematically. Can’t be seen except mathematically. Can’t even really be described in any physical sense except, that’s right… Mathematically. OK it’s a string. We all know strings but it’s a special string that exists in like 10 dimensions. So try describing that. As a matter of fact string theory predicts the existence of many dimensions above the usual four. Four?

Space-time is the four dimensional universe we live in. It’s all three dimensions you’re used two which are directional and then time. A drawing is two-dimensional. A movie is actually three-dimensional in a way. Life is four-dimensional. That’s as simply as I can put it. But for String Theory there are up to ten or more dimensions needed to explain the theory. It also tries to explain Quantum Gravity. But I digress.

So Hawking, the genie in the bottle, says that black holes hide the information that goes into it in the singularity but they also radiate. He conceded the point and paid his debt to John Preskill, which in a weird way symbolizes the debt paid to the universe when virtual particles appear and disappear. Good thing Preskill and Hawking aren’t virtual particles. (Or Antimatter and Matter for that umm… matter.)

The End?

L.S.C.

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