Gurgitations

What we call fundamental changes with time. Atoms were once thought to be fundamental, elementary building blocks of nature; protons were then thought to be fundamental, then quarks. Now we say the string is fundamental. So there still are fundamental building blocks: they are the different modes of the string.

- David Gross

“Strings” also happen to be the basic building blocks of computer languages.

In a somewhat humorous tone, I think this raises the following possibilities about the nature of the universe:

1. There is a God. He likes to mess with our heads.
2. Computer and Physics guys like to name things the same way.
3. We are living inside a computer program.

Seems only logical.

Blake