STING Theory

[RascalPuff]

Last night, I had a dream, and leading actors in two box office hit movies known to most everyone, were in that dream.
I saw a vampire, I saw a ghost, and then I saw Paul Newman & Robert Redford playing lead-roles in The Sting, and they scared me the most...

The counterfeit, ersatz racetrack 'boiler room' setting by which the investor-gambler (played by Robert Shaw) was duped, symbolizes the 'modification' of the word 'theory', which use to mean physical/ quantifiable proof(s) of some kind, differentiating it from the word 'hypothesis'. Whereas, 'Sting Theory' has no such credentials. Moreover, mathematics is not physics, or, at least it didn't use to be.

Robert Shaw also played the foredoomed shark-hunter in JAWS; wherein the artful contrivance of a very realistic Great White Shark was called 'Bruce' by everyone on the back stage movie set. Bruce wrecks a large boat in order to get to and consume the shark-hunter, before 'Sheriff' Roy Schneider - while clinging to a sinking boat - tactfully blows the shark to smithereens.
Each of the two movies about different kinds of sharks, has a different kind of ending. The Sting ends with the success of the con men, whereas the JAWS movie ends with the undoing of the inadvertently antagonistic (perhaps 'Moby Dick' inspired) shark.

Granted there's some 'far out' metaphors presented here, but then, 'String Theory' is a 'far out' apparition to be sitting - so it is said - in the middle of 'mainstream physics'. (ToE Quest's Grand Master, Austin Torney could, and may, have a lot of creative innovations for this sparse metaphorical Movie - 'M theory' - framework for what may be more appropriately called 'Sting Theory'...).

To dream, the impossible dream, to reach, the unreachable stars; etceteras...

(What, if anything, Professors Ed Witten or Brian Greene have to do with this quasi fanciful fantasy is anyone's guess; though I do not and will not contend any submission that either or both of these men possess qualified genius in the real sense of the word. Whereas, genius without palpably qualified evidence, does not convert a frog to a prince, or an hypothesis to a theory.)

Digressing to reality (as I have said before):
Are not two different facets - mathematics & geometry - of the same discipline, throwing an intractable 1 & 2 dimensional geometric loop of string around a 1 & 2 dimensional mathematical wave, here?

Both Planck-length and sub-quantum considerations are accessible via mathematical matrix equations. Neither are accessible via qualified geometry. Ethereal mathematics is not conditional/ontological physics, the former being subordinate to the latter. Moreover the descent below Planck-length and sub-quantum realms escapes the reaches of experimentation, which resonates with Brian Greene's implication (in The Elegant Universe) that mathematical theorism may take a priority place ahead of experimental methods: the status quo of Sting Theory (sic) is that it ('mathematical theorism') already has ex parte/ex officio priority over experimental physics; does not the same 'main stream' (if cabalistic) school also imply that electromagnetism and gravity are conceptually expendable?

If I understand Lloyd Gillespie correctly, he has already pointed out that any topological or spherical entity requires 3 dimensions in order to sustain itself in real space. While 'the void' seems to be an increasingly popular place to hang out, write, prevaricate, and pass bad checks.

Until further notice the promptly-tardy Sting Theorists are left where they are - way ahead of and - in search of themselves: apparently prepared to displace the collective products of the entire evolution and findings of modern experimental physics; while drumming up funds for interminable expeditions in pursuit of a graviton - and a humongous ensemble of other unfound 'particles'.

A favored Sting Theory refuge is that it's adversaries 'don't understand it'. Heck. In my case at least, they've certainly got that right, due to a mathematical handicap and, in the well worn words of Wolfgang Pauli, 'This isn't even wrong'. Truly Yours cares not to invest any gambling money in such a Hollywood Guilded 'boiler room' or fractally submerged artificial shark - no matter how promising the numbers look, in or out of the box office. Mathematically inspired 'verbal judo', blinding blizzards of numerically innovated snow or confetti, creatively hostile defense, soothe saying, 'majority rules', and neurolinguistically programmed repetition - or carrying pi out to it's last decimal point - does not a theory make.

'String Theory'? ('We need a bigger boat?') Choose, from a vast array of numbers and equations (or a Bingo card?) and find a comfortable seat (with sleeping accomodations and room service? Livin' it up at the Hotel California? You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave?).

[labelwench]

Indeed, while I did see both of the movies that you use as reference, Rascal, just recently, an e-mail crossed my desk that brought to my attention that the people entering college this year will have no knowledge of those films, unless they frequent the 'classics' section.

Which brings to mind, that many of our frames of reference are temporary, in the extreme, and of limited use when communicating with each other.

And yet, that should also simplify the task greatly.

That which is 'true' or 'T.O.E.' must be apparent to all, no matter from when it is viewed, or by whom.

Or so it would seem to me...a creature of but limited perspective.....

[RascalPuff]

Indeed, while I did see both of the movies that you use as reference, Rascal, just recently, an e-mail crossed my desk that brought to my attention that the people entering college this year will have no knowledge of those films, unless they frequent the 'classics' section.

Which brings to mind, that many of our frames of reference are temporary, in the extreme, and of limited use when communicating with each other.

And yet, that should also simplify the task greatly.

That which is 'true' or 'T.O.E.' must be apparent to all, no matter from when it is viewed, or by whom.

Or so it would seem to me...a creature of but limited perspective.....

Point well taken Ma'am.
On the other hand, hey, there's all kinda' re-runs on TV and in video medium that informatively update the recreational viewers of all ages. Guessing that the essential point of that e-mail was to mark the passage of a generation by the measuring rod of ongoing movie chronology.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The Sting Operation

God had no friends,
A Being all alone,
Nor any earliest memory,
So, he took up His harp
To play some perfect songs.

The strings vibrated,
Playing forth the music of reality
As all the fundamental particles.

See M-Theory Movie trailer
Showing quark workings
and asymptotic freedom
Of free will:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93Gn_nrVIw

“Of what instrument have we been spanned?”
…
“Oh, sweetest song!”

All would have been fine,
But along came the Devil,
Existing because:

— Positive and Negative Balance —

Good and evil were wrought from wrong and right,
When, from nought, twin genii split day and night.

The Devil played not even his simple fiddle bow,
Nor even his wretched accordion,
But a set of bagpipes
That was way out of tune…

This dark symphony of discord
Distorted the anthem ‘ne plus ultra’,
It becoming even much worse than rap “music”;
So, thus it is that all is not perfection
And to us puppets
Many strings are attached.

Never-the-less, Brian Greene
Discovered by math alone
The 10*500 possible tunes
Of all the universes strung
And sung in so many dimensions.

In ‘M Movie’,
The movie of all movies,
“A Star is Born”,
Namely, Greene Brain,
Who takes us into another dimension…
Of the con zone.

These songs are playing in a universe near you.

[austintorn@aol.com]

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