Re: Dave Weckl



"keith runfola" <krunfola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

> That guy was talking about bringing together the strong and weak
> nuclear forces and the electromagnetic force. Gravity is the 4th
> force.
> I'm reading a great book by Brian Greene right now callled, "The
> Fabric of the Cosmos". According to him they might be close to
> reconciling all of these into "string theory". It says that there are
> little, (really, really little) one dimensional "strings" that
> generate all the basic particles (photons, quarks etc) depending on
> how they vibrate.
> This requires 10 spatial dimensions!
> They have postulated the existence of the "graviton" but have never
> observed one.
> I can regurgitate this stuff because I just read it last night.
> Ask me next week and I'll just stare blankly and say, "my head hurts,
> can I have a cookie"?

Sometimes I think they invent their math, consistent within itself, and then
they try to figure out if it represents something in reality. It's then
that all these really tiny, one dimensional, non-material, non observable
thingys start to crop up in their explanations. I don't deny the
possibility, but it does begin to sound like BS. At that point I too want a
cookie, and some milk to dip it in. :)

brent


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