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Old 16-July-2007, 02:50 PM
czeslaw czeslaw is offline
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Originally Posted by jamini View Post
It's not so much that the strings need another dimension to interact as a physical space in which to oscillate. I'm not dismissing it a priori although I don’t see how it ties into the OP about a flaw in GR and a luminous aether.
If a string oscillate it has to be made of something or to be in a medium. If a string is not a substance we can't observe the oscillations. A substance oscillate only. A pure mathematic wave oscillate in our imagination but we can't sense it, I think.