[baudrunner]

I made a plea to smart thinkers recently (RE: Robert's weekly report), in not so many words, that any discussion pertaining to other dimensions, parallel realities etc. be categorized under the heading of metaphysics and to not be a part of any discussion about the fundamental nature of reality.

I think, David, that your opinion on that matter agrees with mine from what I have read of some of the contributions you have made in the past in other discussions.

To synopsize, I stated that analysis of that most fundamental of all the constituents of reality beyond which analysis in greater depth reveals nothing, that is string theory, must incorporate empirical evidence which we find in the study of waves and wave interactions at the macro level. For example, if we were to superimpose any number of random wave forms of assorted and random shapes and viewed their product on an oscilloscope we would see their mathematical sum, which would be represented by a single wave. Furthermore, we have only the experiential evidence of a single reality, so this must be it!

At the level of strings, which incidentally will probably never be observed (although I wouldn't commit myself to that at this point, after all we have femto-second lasers and I just figured out how they are probably constructed) we have a similar principle at work, so the logical conclusion is that this three dimensional framework is the only practical reality that exists in all of creation. A reality which is represented by a composite of all the possibilities, which are not otherwise realized as fundamental in their own right.

Having said that, there must also be quantum effects at that scale and those effects separate force particles from each other and from matter particles, and all the matter particles from each other, all progressive quantum thresholds crossed in the realization of matter.

The point is this: those bosons that comprise space are the composite of those reinforcing/destructively interfering waves settling into the quantum homogeneity we call space/time. The other force particles represent spectral bands created by progressive quantum thresholds of more homogeneous composites which assure their place in the cosmic scheme of things and the progression continues into matter particles so all the particles are related and constructively compose elements which themselves represent quantum threshold experiences.

Modern science has the ability to effect alchemy-like changes to matter by forcing combinations and re/deconstructions because all those particles, while unique in their own right, are all a part of the one and only reality, wherein we find ourselves. We are currently in the stage of discovering that we are in the process of understanding the fundamental nature of reality.

To my thinking, that means that science has come a long way.