Intelligent Design In Schools

[Marcus Bryant]

This is a prime example of how statist policies everything up.

[MannyIsGod]

I'll agree with that.

[RandomGuy]

"can something come out of nothing? "

This is the 100th anniversary of AE's e = mc-squared.

energy (nothing) and matter, are interchangeable, back and forth.

there was always something starting with the Big Bang.

Vedantic cosmology says there have been 40 Big Bangs, IIRC. the oscillating universe.

This oddly enough seems to loosely fit the "best guess" equations that quantum physics has come up with.

The "membrane theory" that seems to best summarize the equations (that are all waaaay over my head) goes something like this:

The universe was created by the collision of two oscillating membranes at a certain point. Matter comes about in "clumps" because of the non-uniform nature of these membranes. Imagine the surface of a swimming pool that has a lot of people in it and they are moving around, and that is about what they think based on my understanding.

All particles in the universe are based on super-tiny "strings" that oscillate at varying frequencies, giving rise to differing particles depending on this oscillation.

The universe has 11 or 26 dimensions, depending on how the equations work out. The 3 spatial dimensions we are familiar with are the largest, with the other dimensions being very very small. Imagine a plane infinitely wide and infinitely long, but only 1 millionth of an inch tall, and you get a rough idea of the "scale" of these other dimensions.

Time is incidentally one of these dimensions.

One odd outgrowth of this is that there are potentially an infinity of alternate universes, some that only are different by the placement of one atom, some that are so wierd that they don't even have matter.

That is what I understand of it and it took a month of reading to get through it. That and a really good thing on the history channel or the science channel, I can't remember which.

[MannyIsGod]

String theory is pretty fascinating. I have a friend that is a Physics major and I've picked her brain about it several times. I need to read way more about it, but it is very technical.

[RandomGuy]

String theory is pretty fascinating. I have a friend that is a Physics major and I've picked her brain about it several times. I need to read way more about it, but it is very technical.

Yup. I waded through some very technical crap that I didn't have a clue about, until I waded through enough to find a few explanations that were designed for non-physics types. That and the thing on TV that I can't rember the name of.

[scott]

Just watch CSI, you will be a super-Scientist in no time.