If that ain't the truth. As a layman, I could barely grasp string theory...then along came superstring theory...and now the rage is "M" theory (really fascinating, but even the layman explanations are getting so technical they're hard to follow!). What's cool about "M" theory is that (finally) there is math to support where the energy came from to create the Big Bang in the first place...and how our universe seems to exhibit both quantum effects at the micro level and chaos effects in the macro level. Or, so it does if I'm reading the articles correctly.

I always thought a Bussard ramjet as described in Tau Zero (and again later in Niven's "A World Out of Time") would make a cool rocket design...and you've gone and done it! Booyah!

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Dean Fox
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