[Dialogue] Change of Belief

[Robert A Griffin]

Steve, Darrell et al:
Bob G. seldom responds to the Dialogue but this brought me up short because I have just been flipping through Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books 2001.  
Now, truth be known, I am not a physist or the son or brother of one.  In Liberia in 2000 I wrote a high school physics lesson plan to help prepare West African HS students for the WATests that ALL high schoolers in Liberia had to pass in order to graduate from high school.  Now that was a year before Hawking's TUN so I did not have the benefit of his undescibable clarity.  Ever hear of a brane?  Neither had I until reading TUN yesterday.  "In a brane world model, holography would be a one-to-one correspondence between states in our four-dimensional world and states in higher dimensions." and... "With observations from the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at Geneva {now undergoing tests}... we may be able to determine whether or not we live on a brane.  If we do, it will presumably be because the anthropic principle picks out brane models from the vast zoo of universes allowed by M-theory.  We could well paraphrase Miranda in Shakerspeare's The Tempest:
    O Brane new world.
    That has such creatures in't.
That is the universe in a nutshell." Hawking

Pondering some more about Darrell's Change of Belief thread which includes
phrases like:
-Ken Wilber's concept of holons
-Our role as holons will be participants in the process but we will not be in control
 		 	   		  
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