Yes, women ponder the universe too...!

[MissChristian]

I'm a [female] teacher/writer that likes to play the guitar/piano, read literary fiction and watch hideously confusing (and often totally pointless and unrevealing) documentaries on Einstien, Hawking and the theory of everything! Of course I'm a particularly huge but equally humble fan of the universe and everything in it. I have so so so many ideas and questions, and it never occured to me to join one of these forums. Do replies to threads get sent to my default email address?

[MissChristian]

And I am in the United Kingdom.

[Mohan.C]

I'm a [female] teacher/writer that likes to play the guitar/piano, read literary fiction and watch hideously confusing (and often totally pointless and unrevealing) documentaries on Einstien, Hawking and the theory of everything! Of course I'm a particularly huge but equally humble fan of the universe and everything in it. I have so so so many ideas and questions, and it never occured to me to join one of these forums.

Welcome to ToeQuest MissChristian.

[austintorn@aol.com]

And I am in the United Kingdom.

You can probably walk down the road and visit Wick, Melanie, and SB_UK.

[austintorn@aol.com]

This is why some men ponder the universe

[MissChristian]

I've always thought that people who -seriously -ponder the universe, the meaning of life and the TOE are innately nice-ish people (and I don't mean people who have the occasional chat about it -I'm talking about research...and an undying curiosity...) Of course too much interest can be a bad thing. There is such a thing as a healthy -just-right-amount- of interest. (I think)

[Meem]

How can anyone not think about something that is all around them, no matter which way the turn? I guess they need someone that can take their mind off of things ... and put them on things in the goofiest of ways. "Life is serious business," it's seriously important to love, laugh, and be happy and have someone by your side that knows what that really means.

[final.theory.chick]

Hi there, I'm a young girl in my twenties, totally into Final Theory and physics. Travelled to Switzerland to work on large Hadron Collider and am a MTI student. stumbled across a book due to be released in a few months with new perspectives on Final Theory.It's called Nature's Watchmaker by a South African, John Thompson. It seems like its pretty good stuff and he's suprisingly on the ball! desperate to get some opinions! here is some general info on the book:

In Nature’s Watchmaker John Thompson seeks to provide an answer to the enigma that has been engaging scientists and philosophers since the study of time began: a complete description of all the physical processes governing the universe from its creation to its ultimate destruction.

His new theory confronts the major issues currently faced by scientists including gravity, the perplexing dark matter and even more baffling dark energy. It explains why particles exist, why they have their specific properties and predicts exactly the values of certain constants previously only obtainable by experiment. The theory shows that despite the universe apparently expanding at an ever-increasing rate it will eventually enter a contraction epoch. Unlike current theories it combines all the effects found in both the microscopic (atoms) and macroscopic (stars, black holes, galaxies) universes in one simply derived equation.

Intriguingly, this new theory even answers the ultimate question: why does anything exist in the first place?

hit me back with some thoughts and more links if you're interested!