Johan Gamper
Abstract
M-theory is the claim that there are ontological membranes (o-branes). O-branes are entities that consist of things of more than one kind. The explanatory impact of o-branes is that they may be free to operate causally between homogeneous ontological domains such as the physical and a possible platonic mathematical domain. The thought of more than one homogeneous ontological domain may rock the mind but you can simply deny it. O-branes, however, may trouble you of two reasons: first, Nothingness may be an ontologically homogeneous domain and since there actually are things, it seems like there is an o-brane. Second: What if the mathematics/physics o-brane is the original singularity? What should we then call black hole singularities? If both kinds of singularities are o-branes they evidently are different in relation to their causal background. What would the second kind of o-brane be when we look at the Nothingness/something o-brane?
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