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I've always been reassured by the lack of influence of scientific "laws" on the way the universe actually works As Wendy Cope says "the planet went on being round"! To be fair, a lot of the "God theory" has more to do with social relationships and an underpinning theoretical authority for them) than theoretical physics. Anyone else feel that the social aspects of the 10 commandments aren't outdated ? Scientific "laws" - which are hypotheses - only require *one* inexplicable situation to be disproved ... MaryH In message <[log in to unmask]>, Paul Miller <[log in to unmask]> writes >String theory implies multiple dimensions and perhaps multiple >universes, with matter simply being a consequence of the vibrations >of these strings from other dimensions. These dimensions are >squished up very very small and as they shoogle around stuff >happens in our little pocket of reality. Sounds daft, but the maths >works in many places as a way of modelling reality. > >No - I don't understand it either, though I was being a little tongue in >cheek. :-) > >On 06/03/07, Margaret <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Again, I ask, Why? Just because we don't understand something > doesn't make it impossible. > >No, but chronologically it doesn't make any sense for it to be the >other way around. Not that this necessarily makes it impossible, >given our limited and flawed understanding of the physics of the >universe. But it does make it substantially unlikely. Like getting off >the bus without ever having got on. -- Mary Hawking