String Vibrations
The stiffness of a string is inversely proportional to its length while long strings are easy to bend, the shorter the string the more rigid it becomes. Decreasing the size of strings would have a gravitational force of the right strength. Therefore increasing the tension of the strings to about a thousand trillion trillion trillion tons.
Imagine
bending a tiny extremely stiff string into elaborate patterns.
The more peaks and troughs there are, the more energy you will have to
exert.
Once a string is vibrating in an elaborate pattern, it has a huge amount
of energy.
Thefore all the string vibrational patterns are highly energetic,
hence E = mc2, equals particles with really huge masses.
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The masses of the string vibrations are analogous to musical harmonics. They are all multiples of a fundamental mass. Just as overtones are all multiples of a fundamental tone. By the standards of particle physics, mass is colossal. It is some 10 billion billion times the mass of a proton, roughly the mass of a dust mote. It is a challenge having an endless list of vibrational patterns whose masses become from those of known particles . It was discovered that heavy particles tend to be unstable. Heavy particles disintegrate quickly into a sower of lower-mass particles. The quark disintegrates in about 10/4 seconds. To see the superheavy vibrational patterns would be to produce them through high-energy collisions in particle accelerators. |
Replicating the energy of the super string theory, and
as current accelerators can reach only energies equivalent to roughly
1,000 times the mass of a proton, they are far too weak to make only the
string theory's most placid vibrational patterns. The contact between
string theory and particle physics will involve only the lowest-energy,
the massless string vibrations. String theory's prediction of a tower
of particles with masses starting some million billion times greater than
that achievable with today's technology is impossible.
