Branes, M-Theory, String Theory, and Eleven Dimensions PART TWO

Unfortunately, no one seems to know what "M" stands for; it could be "master", "miracle" or "mystery"
Retrieved for Edumacational Porpoises by Pat Darnell and iHerd

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)

How a Man Ages -- UPDATED- how the space shuttle ages

Space Shuttles | First flights | (real or hypothetical retirement dates) | Years Service
Atlantis - 1985 (2010) 25 yrs.
Columbia - 1981 [ note: Exploded on re-entry - 2003]
Challenger - 1983 [note: Exploded after launch - 1986]
Discovery - 1984 (2009) 25 yrs.
Endeavor - 1992 (2012) 20 yrs.
Enterprise - [note: Test model only. Never launched]
New Shuttle -> Intrepid - (March 2010 to March 2020) 10 yrs.
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2012 to 2020 - 2 Space Shuttles until in 2012, 1 until 2020


2008 - Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor
2009- Atlantis, Endeavor,
2010- Endeavor, Intrepid
2011- Endeavor, Intrepid
2012- Endeavor, Intrepid
2013 to 2020 - Intrepid



I have become
All things unattractive
where once a jaw

Now a roll
Where once a crouch
Now a pouch

Where once a leap
Now a creep
Lonely as a lighthouse keeper

-- Third generation keeper that is --

Perturbed at day and night
fretting against lifestyle I inherit
Witness many shipwrecks
On stones of stand and rocks

Hidden midst panes of light
and ‘midst uncertain sea life
Where once sea froze

Was it safe to walk under
Relying might we
with what we chose

to use boots as boats
Frozen toe and guts
Alone as a wind gust
Nature christened "Bad Temperament"

safe to christen also
Other souls letting go
Bodies mashed 'tween wall
Of water and toe of tower
warnings turn in bearings

to signal friendlies journeys

Friendlier and friendliest peers
Neighbors look into vapors
stare at sea wave bombs

-- Some frightened; some remain calm --

And ask ‘What can we do?’

We built a pier
To tie me froze boat

We sank down below water line
And towed it,
pulling lines in tow

Till we froze and float
Yet yonder, at tide line
Dry patches pavement

Scant puddles left
Like toed nails appointment
Against climates
addled temperament

On piers lay soldiers’ wives
at shore children’s wails
Crying, bereft against torrents
of ignoble swales

Uncertain rigors prevents
Eternal pathos to prevail
though abundant trouble

To die, turn up one’s toes

A chap should be what he can do!

And not as he's told.

• PD / 24 Jan 06

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That is why Mankind is so Special in God the Father's Creation

1. Why do you think God gave mankind the gift of choice?

I think it is because omniscience makes for no need, or rather, no requirement for choices to be made. If you want to continue creating as God the Creator does, then there must be some thing, or factor of choice.

That alone is enough to keep watch whether the kettle boils, as I see it. pd/mpw 07.2008