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In the 1980s there appeared a new theory that looked promising – superstrings.
[EXCERPT] " ... Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? It is these "ultimate questions of life" that Hawking's now sets out to answer, with the help of the American physicist and science writer Leonard Mlodinow, in his fascinating new book The Grand Design (Bantam). Philosophers have traditionally tackled such questions, while most physicists have stayed well clear from addressing the "why" of things and concentrated instead on the "how". [SOURCE] ... "
While some people are getting married, and while others are finishing their educations; while ministers are leading their flocks, and while cowboys are riding large big dumb animals bareback [who says they are dumb...] -- Stephen Hawking tries to finish up his Theory of Everything. Says Mr Hawking:
" ... "To understand the universe at the deepest level, ... we need to know not only how the universe behaves, but why." He believes that "philosophy is dead" because it failed to keep up with the latest developments, especially in physics. ... (ibid)"It gets more and more like World Without End, as we approach possible proofs to new theories. It looks also like there may be no need to explain God, because to know God is to start over... Adam and Eve were God's children but started again when cast out of Paradise. God just is -- like the scripture says.
Paradise to these guys, Hawking and the rest, is in knowing. Elvis might have been the first to understand the nexus in this argument ... but forgot about it in his final blow; and that is the price we pay to be humans. He was all shook up, and that hound dog weren't no friend of his. But he does represent faith to many folks; hopefully the World will leap forward in faith too.
"M-theory is not a theory in the usual sense," admits Hawking. "It is a whole family of different theories, each of which is a good description of observations only in some range of physical situations. It is a bit like a map."In A Brief History of Time, Hawking said that a scientific theory "may originally be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons, but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observations". (Manjit Kumar. Friday, 10 September 2010. Theories of everything: Has cosmic science written its last word? HERE)
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