Hello Everybody

[bruce the hoon]

I am just an interested bystander with a few ideas that may or may not be useful to this noble quest. I am an aircraft technician to trade, although at the moment I am helping out in my own small way in the agriculture industry at the moment here in Saskatchewan developing better solutions to tasks that our food producers face.

Anyway, that aside, I am glad to have found this site because it does not seem to just focus on the science or mathematics of a TOE which is a very good thing because I think that when you try to hang numbers on huge systems that have a good splash of chaotic change and emergent systems going on you can very soon run yourself into knots.

Nor is it a religious site which in itself is possibly the easiest solution to a unified theory, just invent a big beard in the sky and blame it all on God and ineffability. Some religious teachers in the past have come up with good stuff, and then in turn they get promoted to icon in chief and end up with a bunch of shamans speaking for them and so through the degradation of time and word of mouth the lessons get all chewed up and confused.

Philosophy, also nodded at but not focused on which is a good thing because that can get caught up in its own cleverness and end up slipping into the "because it is so" copout.

I believe the we as part of the human species are intuitive in a very large part and are able to understand why something should behave the way it does without needing to nail it down with numbers, but the fact that we can apply mathematics and science to most things helps us to explain and understand the anomalies we all observe, and, so predict and avoid the pitfalls when we move into unexplored areas of invention.
A nice neat usable TOE would be nice but I don't believe any one discipline can provide all the answers, maybe a new discipline will evolve or emerge and we will begin using all of human knowledge to get to how it works.

I enjoy reading books in lay-mans terms when they are dealing with this subject matter, and first got interested in this in the 80's ??Was it that long ago? When Stephen Hawking wrote his Brief History of Time. I also find science fiction an interesting place to pick up ideas and find it fascinating when we have a medium for sounding out ideas and theories when people will not argue about it with you, but will just store the idea away and pull it out later when it has an application. After all its only a story. So now we have cell phones and sliding doors. And I am sure a load of other innovations influenced by the stories we tell ourselves.

Enough rambling for now, I look forward to swapping some ideas with you guys.Thanks for having me.

[dleviwing]

Hi bruce;
Welcome to ToeQuest.
Your sentiments are shared by many members so you should feel at home here. Feel free to post your ideas and comments or start your own thread to voice your views.

[subversion]

Welcome to the board!

I think this board is unique in that it does take a holistic approach to the TOE, instead of consigning the quest to one single discipline. I agree that the TOE may itself become a new all-encompassing way of thinking.

It would be kind of like science fiction...

Anyway, welcome to the board. Lots of fascinating discussions are to be had!! My name is subversion and I'm the resident miscreant, but in a good way. I'm sure we'll come to know eachother in time. kudos

-SubVersion

[bruce the hoon]

Thanks for the welcome guys.

[harmonygirl]

Welcome Bruce, I hope you are enjoying your stint in Sask (I did when I was there). What's a hoon?