Superstrings cannot be 'fundamental'
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Posted by alen on July 05, 2002 at 23:44:43:
Superstrings are presented as extended objects, capable of vibratory states that can be identified as known elementary particles. Such a presentation necessarily asserts that one part of such a string is, in whatever way, identifiably distinct from another part of the same string.
This is the same as to say that the string has 'composition', which inevitably indicates that the string contains 'components', for each such distinct part, by simply being so, already manifests the quality of being a 'component'.
These distinct parts of the string automatically manifest a 'particle' composition of the string. If the components, or parts, are not themselves particles, but also have extended features, or distinct 'parts', of any description at all, these distinct parts, in turn, indicate that the components themselves have 'composition'. However far this process needs to be taken, it must always end up, in the end, with the identification of the 'particle' as the most fundamental component, because this, alone, is a concept that does not display 'composition'. Every entity or reality whatsoever that manifests 'composition' must, therefore, inevitably always finally rest on the 'particle' as the most fundamental basis of its manifestation.
This must apply no less to Superstrings than to any other reality. If such a string can manifest apparently continuously varying values of a wave function along its length, it follows that the string must be composed of a very large number of very small particles. Similarly, it follows also that the 'topological' interactions of Superstrings can be nothing other than a macroscopic manifestation of the actions of a very large number of very much smaller particles.
I make the case that the above argument manifests a picture that is, of itself, fundamentally compelling and inescapable and must, therefore, always be applicable to every physical theory whatsoever.
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