Quarks Are Strange (String Theory, etc.)

[Darren Dirt]

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)

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". 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, 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" )



Science, ain't it grand? Too bad Arthur C Clarke isn't going to be around anymore to be part of the journey of discovery...