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Particles, sounds and language
Matter was studied in smaller and smaller particles, the atoms idealized by Democritus (460-370 BC) in ancient times, but for him they were indivisible, eternal and immutable, but modern science began to see them in smaller and smaller sub-particles.
Initially protons, electrons and neutrons, in the 1930s Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli predicted the neutrino, but it was only detected in 1956 by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reine, in the 1960s George Zweig and Murray Gell-Mann predicted quarks, which were discovered in 1968 at the Stanford Linear Acceleration Center.
Then came Gluons, Leptons, Mesons and Hadrons to complement the Standard Model of Physics, the name given to the unified theory of physics in the 1970s. In 2012, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC in Genegra) detected the Higgs boson, which was a subparticle predicted to unify the theory, but questions remain: what is dark matter, what happens in a black hole, what causes the gravitational force, are there graviton particles?
One theory developed to answer these questions was string theory, which dates back to 1919 when it was developed by Theodor Kaluza, then Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Leonard Susskind, John H. Schwartz and Michael B. Green, to name but a few important and well-known physicists.
The up and down quarks that make up protons and neutrons, joined by the force of gluons, would form different vibrations that would compose themselves to form elementary particles, so the whole universe could be the result of primitive forms of vibrations, sounds that could be outside the audible ranges.
It attempts to unify quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, and may be a more unifying model than that of standard physics.
So we can say that sounds are the primordial “language” of the universe and everything could be composed from it. The observations of galaxy formation and black hole behavior made by James Webb could confirm or deny this theory.
In the same way, the universe would be a being of “language” in the form of vibrations formed by string theory, and our word would be something much more important than we imagine, not just because it has a certain power, but mainly because it is part of the early universe and develops with it into its most complex forms of nebulae that form giant and small stars, red giants, white dwarfs, novae and supernovae, neutron stars and black holes.
The complex universe would be in its most elementary form through up and down quarks, various forms of strings that would make up what we call matter.
An paper by the director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), Ooguri Hirosi, and the project’s researcher, Matthew Dodelson, on the theoretical effects of strings outside the black hole’s photon sphere, was published in the journal Physical Review on March 24, 2021.