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从描述的观点看“膜的新奇世界”

王天思   

  1. 上海大学 社会科学学院,上海 200444
  • 收稿日期:1900-01-01 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2007-11-15 发布日期:2007-11-15

Seeing the“Brane New World”from the Descriptive Point of View

Wang Tian-si   

  1. School of Social sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-11-15 Published:2007-11-15

摘要: 量子理论和膜理论标志着人类对世界的两类典型描述。量子描述建立在量的基础之上,这种基于量的形式化描述不仅与相对论互不相容,而且其本身会遇到难以处理的无穷大等问题。量子理论与相对论难以协调,归根结底由于量子力学描述只是单纯量的描述,而相对论则包含了形的描述。作为一种形的描述,膜理论扬弃了粒子而采用具有有限大小的膜,从而能使我们对世界的描述保持自洽。形的描述建立在几何的基础之上,不仅有利于扩大对于世界的描述功能,而且为各种尺度描述的统一提供了可能性。增加形的描述,至少是对于外部世界描述的一种很有希望的扩展。

关键词: 超弦理论, 膜理论, 量的描述, 形的描述

Abstract: Quantum theory and membrane theory indicate two kinds of typical descriptions of the world. The quantum description is quantity-based. This quantity-based and formalized description has come across the infinity problem hard to deal with besides incompatible with the theory of relativity which owing to, in the final analysis, the description in quantum mechanics is merely quantity-based, and the description in the theory of relativity is mainly shape-based. The membrane theory as a shape-based description has adopted the membrane limited size instead of particle, which makes our description to the world consistency. The shape-based description built upon the foundation of geometry will not only extend the function of describing the world, and provided the possibility for an unified description in different scale. It’s at least a kind of hopeful extension to describe the external world to develop the shape-based description.

Key words: membrane theory, quantity-based description, shape-based description, Superstring theory