An episode of the BBC series "Horizon" claims that there is a "supermassive" Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy -- and EVERY other one.
(montage of clips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZtqZBw9N0))
Yesterday's post got sucked into a hardware failure black hole, and don't remember the exact video I linked to, but it was a montage of clips re. String Theory and Parallel Universes and whatnot. Quite interesting stuff.
From Youtube user "QuarksAreStrange" (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=QuarksAreStrange). Cool stuff.
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Ah... here it is:
Before, Meanwhile and After the BIG BANG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOkAagw6iug
Lotsa links on the right of the video ("About This Video" section):
Video Montage from "Parallel Universes" (BBC/TLC 2002) an episode of the great BBC series "Horizon":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml
M-Theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Theory
Superstring Theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring_theory
Supergravity Theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergravity
11 spatial dimensions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_dimension
Quantum mechanics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
(now that I've finished reading Robert Anton Wilson's 2nd trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Cat_Trilogy), I'm even more hooked into this kind of stuff...)
from the BBC page for "Horizon", "Find Out More" section...
Princeton University - Prof Paul Steinhardt
http://feynman.princeton.edu/~steinh/
Dr Michio Kaku
www.mkaku.org
Superstring phenomenology and the brane-world
http://fisica.usac.edu.gt/public/curccaf_proc/quevedo1/
Hyperspace: a scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps and the tenth dimension
Michio Kaku
The Elegant Universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for the ultimate theory
Brian Greene
Parallel Universes: the search for other worlds
Fred Alan Wolf
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
Edwin Abbott Abbott, Kendahl J Jubb. 19th century fiction, first published in 1884.
(also the above reminds me I gotta finally get around to reading the short but profound novel "Flatland" :P )
Science, ain't it grand? Too bad Arthur C Clarke (http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,6213.0.html) isn't going to be around anymore to be part of the journey of discovery...