Friday, December 24, 2004

Am I Missing something?

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I've been enjoying PBS, as usual, along with the other main networks. CH-6 recently reran 'The Elegant Universe' and 'Einstein's Wife,' both of which were even more fascinating the second time around. Did you know that Einstein's Wife contributed significantly to the Theory of Relativity?

In 'The Elegant Universe' we discovered the beginnings of a scientific metaphysic called, String Theory. There appear to be at least five versions of this 'speculata mathematica.' The theory claims to reconcile the two disparate versions of Modern Science: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. For some strange reason Scientists since Einstein have been searching for some sort of 'scientific holy grail' which would unify the notions of Very Large and Very Small. Rotsaruck.

I see this as an essentially Jewish idea. The Jewish God WHTZSNM - the concept itself - consolidated all the old gods into One God. This idea was a masterpiece of simplification and it worked economically. But I wonder how a mathematical Theory of Everything will advance our beloved Science. Am I missing something?