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To: TigerPaw who wrote (360150)	11/24/2007 8:30:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576329

"Einstein put them in play a hundred years ago." And then later, many of the physical laws seem to get their basis from a small number of universal constants. And, with the strong possibility that those constants become, well, constant, at the time of creation...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (360150)	11/24/2007 9:03:33 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576329

I'm reading an excellent book now, "Beyond Einstein". More than anything, it shows how at sea physicists are today, in the realm of the unimaginably large and the unimaginably small as well. Where we live, Newton and Einstein will serve - except for explaining gravity. In the very small, string theory seems to be in favor in place of accepting a gigantic ever-expanding zoo of unseeable particles, although it seems largely untestable by experimental physics as of yet. In the realm of the seemingly infinitely huge, dark matter is used to explain what they see, A universe that is accelerating in certain directions away from us, although no one has ever seen dark matter.