Elegant Universe (about String Theory) on PBS tonight!

Check it out....3 hour series

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

Hours 1 and 2 are on tonight from 8-10pm eastern. Hour 3 is next month.

I just saw some of it. They said - if an atom were as big as our solar
system, a string would be as big as a tree.- I am just a stargazing
hobbyist, no extra science education beyond high school. I've seen large
redwoods in California and still have a hard time wondering how they can
possibly know what they are talking about.

I just saw some of it. They said - if an atom were as big as our solar
system, a string would be as big as a tree.- I am just a stargazing
hobbyist, no extra science education beyond high school. I've seen large
redwoods in California and still have a hard time wondering how they can
possibly know what they are talking about.

wrote in message ...
I just saw some of it. They said - if an atom were as big as our solar
system, a string would be as big as a tree.- I am just a stargazing
hobbyist, no extra science education beyond high school. I've seen large
redwoods in California and still have a hard time wondering how they can
possibly know what they are talking about.

"They" don't. It's all talk. Yet another futile attempt at
explaining spiritual existence with a physical model.

The only strings that exist in reality are those which hold
Mr. Green's underwear together.

Rick

wrote in message ...
I just saw some of it. They said - if an atom were as big as our solar
system, a string would be as big as a tree.- I am just a stargazing
hobbyist, no extra science education beyond high school. I've seen large
redwoods in California and still have a hard time wondering how they can
possibly know what they are talking about.

"They" don't. It's all talk. Yet another futile attempt at
explaining spiritual existence with a physical model.

The only strings that exist in reality are those which hold
Mr. Green's underwear together.

Rick

I saw the show and his book was much better, Brian Greene was throwing
an electron back and forth to show attraction. That shows repulsion(go
figure) Bert

I saw the show and his book was much better, Brian Greene was throwing
an electron back and forth to show attraction. That shows repulsion(go
figure) Bert

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
I saw the show and his book was much better, Brian Greene was throwing
an electron back and forth to show attraction. That shows repulsion(go
figure) Bert


He was throwing a "photon" back and forth to show the mediation of the EM force.
I have it on tape so I can provide an exact transcript.

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
I saw the show and his book was much better, Brian Greene was throwing
an electron back and forth to show attraction. That shows repulsion(go
figure) Bert


He was throwing a "photon" back and forth to show the mediation of the EM force.
I have it on tape so I can provide an exact transcript.

Scott You again miss the main thought. He used photons but the point
Greene was making by throwing an object back and fourth pushes them
apart He said towards each other. In books they use a medicine ball and
two people on ice skates throwing the ball back and fourth That creates
repulsion.Scott think about it (please) My theory on the
structure of an electron is that it is a field made of photons spinning
at 'c' My spin theory answers a lot of hard questions,and does
answer EM attraction,and how the graviton is used in quantum gravity.
It gives reality to photon reflection. Bert PS The name of my spin
theory is "Spin Is In"