[Dialogue] Change of Belief

[W. J.]

Jeez. Never imagined that Bob Griffin in his old age was actually on another 
intellectual planet so different from the rest of us. I'm almost brane-dead as 
it is; maybe Muriel is not. But at this point I do hope to hobble toward my 
inevitable tombstone etc. without needing more brane [a la the Scarecrow] than I 
can muster.
Marshall



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From: Robert A Griffin <ramgriffin at msn.com>
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Sent: Sat, August 20, 2011 11:43:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Change of Belief

 
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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