XML and SuperString Theory???

As you can tell, the XMLDevCon is still affecting my brain.  On the flight home, while watching the movie “Bringing Down the House”, my mind started to drift.  The XMLDevCon experience was starting to mix with the Discover and Scientific America magazines I was reading and I remembered a post I made a while back on XML and the SuperString Theory.  I didn’t come up with any new insights, but maybe someone out there is willing to lend a hand.  Here’s the original post:

I’m sure you are saying to your self “What does XML have to do with Theoretical Physics?”.  Well, they don’t currently have much in common, but they happen to both be topics I tried to stay current with.  One day, as my mind was wandering like it does sometimes, both subjects got stuck in my head at the same time.  And it occurred to me that the multidimensional aspects of SuperString theory (where they postulated that there are 10 dimensions) would be much easier to depict and model if they used XML.  Exactly how the XML should look, well that is where I get stuck.  So if any of you mess around with Theoretical Physics, and wish to lend some brain matter, let me know.  Now wouldn’t that be cool if XML was used to help solve the “Theory of Everything”.

Don XML

2 Comments

  • Well since the "native" language for this problem space is mathematical notation, it makes sense that there should be some variant of MathML which can handle it. Whatever the answer is I propose we name it "TheTheoryOfEverythingML (tm)" :)

  • Don,





    Your thought’s dovetail nicely with some reflection’s I've had on multidimensional XML. I'll post those to my blog soon.





    Sean

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