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7. Possible parallels with stringtheories

...that anyone who really understands stringtheories perhaps torpedoes in an instant.

I'm familiar with stringtheories only on a more or less popular level and from this level have a basic understanding of some of its key elements. There are a number of parallels that I see between the fractal-like Euclidean model of the universe, as described on this page with its fundamental forces and particles on one hand and stringtheoretical concepts on the other hand. A couple of examples:

M-Theory with corresponding dimensional viewpoints X1 - X5

• The fractal-universe can be "observed" from different dimensional viewpoints⁽*⁾ which would each give a different mathematical model as well, each being associated with a unique number of dimensions. For the "closest" dimensional viewpoints, i.e., the one from our own X₄, together with X₁, X₂, X₃ and X₅, this would result in rather concrete theories (5 in total), while the more "distant" viewpoints would be less obvious, but nevertheless mathematically possible. I see here some links with the theoretical possibility of many more stringtheories (in particular in Euclidean space-times) while there must exist a dimension-independent overall description (obviously M-theory) of the basic principles of each of them.
• Dualities in stringtheories could be associated with the dualities that I have described between fermions and bosons. Each fermion in X_n corresponds to a boson in X_n+1, i.e., they are physically the same entity but described from a different dimensional viewpoint. This may perhaps also be a basis for supersymmetry. In principle, each particle should have a mathematically describable and associated counter-particle from its neighboring dimensional viewpoint. It would however be the same particle in fact, observed from another (higher or lower dimensional) side.
• P-branes may be directly linked to particles in n dimensions as listed in the table of section 5 and shown in the animations of section 6.
• "Curled up" dimensions in Calabi-Yau space is consistent with the way the proper time dimension shows itself as fully contracted in the spatial environment of an observer in X_n (see description in middle of section 4). Each point in space contains all coordinates of the proper time dimension. The Euclidean model assumes such dimensions to be closed and thus circular.

The added value of Euclidean relativity lies in the fact that the Euclidean space-time, extrapolated to the fractal-like model of the universe, is far better equipped to support this "visually", allowing natural interpretations of various elements of stringtheory, the lack of which seems to have been hampering stringtheories from the beginning. The inherently confusing Minkowski geometry is not really helpful in visualizations.

Perhaps the most interesting contribution of the fractal-universe model based on Euclidean relativity is that quantum gravity results from it naturally. The full quantum description of electromagnetism based on a 4D Euclidean space-time can in principle be ported one-to-one to gravity based on a five dimensional Euclidean space-time with mass particles acting as its bosons.

 

⁽*⁾ The following conditions [see Section 2 in article "Mass particles as bosons in five dimensional Euclidean gravity"] define the dimensional viewpoint in X_n :

• Observers in X_n have the skill to observe dimensions 1 to n-1 as spatial dimensions.
• The dimension n is the equivalent for 'proper time' for observers in X_n .

This definition means that we are observers in X₄ where x₄ is our proper time dimension but that for instance in 3D Euclidean space X₃, observers are 'Flatlanders', i.e., they live in a 2D space. They experience the third dimension x₃ as their equivalence of proper time, while their basis for speed measurements is x₄ .