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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (111797)	1/28/2002 2:38:43 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Well, you can read the book. Understanding it is another story altogether. The first half is realtively simple quantum theory stuff discussed in most High School physics courses. Piece of cake. The second half deals with strings and super-strings and is quite a challenge if the reader does not have a strong science background, as Dr. J. of course does. Can you envision 11 or 12 different dimensions?

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (111797)	1/28/2002 2:40:45 PM
From: limtex	Respond to of 152472

CR - I have the feeling that if we understood the nature of matter then it would be easy to understand it. It seems ot me that the reason why it is always described in such fantastically complicated terms that almost border the metahpysical is that we actually don't understand it. when I was at school some thirty five odd years ago I thought that we were soon going to understand evereything but it seems that although we have no doubt increased our knowledge the result has been that we have realised that there is that much more to the whole issue and that in a way we now know that proportionatly we know less than we did forty years ago. Waves and loops and all the exotic sub-atomic particles must evenutally be composed of soemthign that we can understand. It just seems ot me that it has to be that way. Albiet that some of the rules of these things are very exotic to our current thinking but then how would you explain 1X EVDO to a soldier at Gettysburg. But he could underdtand it after a week or so of bringing him up to date. I think that is a reasonable analogy. Still sub-atomic physics and biology must be the most interesting subjects in the world. Best, L