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encompassing both string theory and SFT or string theory and the
modified quantum theory. In this way string theory can be used
withinthewidegamutofphysicstoanalysethephotoninitsmyriad
roles as binding energy within atomic arrays. String theory thus
becomes indispensable within future analytic methods to predict
howatoms,moleculesandgravitationalsystemsbehavedowntothe
photoniclevel.
At another level, if string theory can be used to replace photons,
particles of light, then strings can be used to approximate a series
of space-time points defining the motions of strings of photons
or phonons. Thus they can be useful to simplify the mathematics,
possibly within the nucleus. One essential difference between SFT
and string theory is that SFT is fractal; it sees fields beneath the
photon structure. Note that we have no reason to believe that the
photonis
not
aparticle,oraninfiniteseriesofparticlesthatlooklike
asingleparticle,andisinsteadastring.Infactwehaveexperimental
evidence beginning with Einstein's photoelectric effect that it is
particulate. Nevertheless string theory may be useful in simplifying
the fractal mathematics by concluding the infinite series in pieces
of string, tying up loose ends so to speak. These differences become
modelling or numerical issues.
What does SFT mean for cosmology and general
relativity?
We have already seen that the internal and external motions of
the photon help explain in a physically intuitive way how space
is not actually warped but the vision our eyes sees at relativistic
speeds is warped. As Einstein knew, seeing is not always believing;
straight lines could be curvilinear. In regard to the general theory of
relativity, Einstein's general relativity (GR) assumes a single form of
gravitation acting across the entire universe. To an approximation
this is true, but the actual situation is otherwise. SFT implies
three main modifications to cosmological models based on GR as it
currently stands:
