[Profpat]

Hi David:

I’m not sure what the F in F theory stands for. Maybe Final or Fun or Fart. I’m not sure what the M in M theory stands for either. I don’t get Shit for Brains from math, we accountants leave math for the mathematicians and physicists. We keep to arithmetic, a lot simpler. I get SfB from women. I’m not sure why they have such power over me, but they do. I believe you or I could come up with a TOE and women would still remain a mystery. Maybe that’s good.

I believe anything to have a form in reality needs 3 dimensions, ( i.e. protons, neutrons, the particle aspect of photons, and very likely electrons ), but I still believe they are constructed of 1 and 2 dimensional entities like the strings and quarks.

Another concept of strings that I like is that it could solve the old something from nothing paradox. Something I am able to accept being a theist, but not very scientific.

String theory holds that if the universe gets compacted to the Planck length, out jumps strings. In other words you can’t shrink the universe to something smaller than Plank length. This means we get something from something and further you can’t take something and make it nothing.

Additionally, if you accept a cyclic theory of the universe, which goes from expansion to contraction, you have a model which would state that the universe is eternal and yet created. I know you don’t the something from nothing philosophy and yet there is strong evidence for a “ Big Bang “ or as you put it I believe a big swell. I think this model reconciles both . The universe is viewed as Eternal just not a steady state.

Just some thoughts I wanted to share.

Best to you,

Pat