Did you happen to catch Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" series on PBS a while back Dan? VERY well done IMO, and presents String and M theories in a way that's 'relatively' easy to understand. Pun intended!

Max Planck and Albert Einstein would have been proud!

4Salt-

Snap out of it - you're the autistic child of a doctor at St. Elsewhere! Hope that reference isn't too obscure...

sounds like a great series, those are the only things that make me miss cable/digital TV.

And if you think about it for a minute - Dan S, Chuck S - it's still only half a brain.

I'm sorry Mike... I just happen to be a closet physicist wannabe.

Not too obscure at all! I used to LOVE St. Elsewhere! I just hope I'm not the autistic child of Dr. Ehrlich!

Who'd of ever thought that you'd see Howie Mandel playing a doctor either!

4S,

That was a very well-produced and written series. I've been looking to hang out at the Quantum Cafe ever since.

The wife hates it when I'm watching shows like that, so she bails out to watch Oprah or some other drivel. I was watching a show on Einstein and the theory of General Relativity, and my boy was sitting there........after about a half-hour he gets up, says "this show is making my head hurt", and left to go play X-Box.

Physics was always my favorite class. If I had the same aptitude in Calculus as I had in Physics, I could have gone down a different path. But you can't really separate the two, so I guess I'm stuck doing what I do.

But I'm steelhead fishing tomorrow, and Stephen Hawking is still going to be working on an integrated theory of everything.......so I have THAT going for me.

Hmmm..........

That's all....

Keith

Or disproven.



Both String Theory and M Theory are examples of this......which is why they are both theories, or philosophies, and can't be proven as fact.



Not true. There are many sub-atomic particles. The atom is most certainly not the smallest unit in the construction of matter.



Or creation. Without atomic fission, the sun would not shine.



Of course there is more.........which is why String Theory and M Theory were postulated.



That's fine.......but there are many that don't see it that way. That doesn't make them right, and you wrong, or vice versa. I have many acquaintences who don't believe in God or a Creator, and they're fine with that, and I know many agnostics who are fine without knowing.

The day when people believe what they believe about things unproven without insisting others think the same way, this world will be a much better place. Whether that ever happens is anyone's guess.