FINAL ACT: Mrs. M and her glow worms 
(aka The Wisdom Seeker’s Pantomime)

 A curious seeker of wisdom shows up at Mrs. M's House. The curious seeker knocks on the big old oak front door.

"knock! Knock!"

a voice behind the big old oak front door answers:

"Who is it?"

"My name is LinZ. Dad sent me here to gain some Wisdom?"

Mrs. M responds,

"Wait a minute. I have to get dressed"

LinZ says,

"Sure, no problem",

and says to herself, smiling

"Mrs. M sure sounds like quite a sweet little old lady. I can’t wait to finally meet her!"

When the big old oak front door opens LinZ is startled and taken a back. Standing at the big old oak front door doorway is a tiny little shimmering green glow worm wearing a green scarf around its neck. LinZ tries to act as if everything is normal, as she smiles politely and says to the glow worm,

"Hello, how are you doing? Nice to meet you, Mr. . . .?"

She reaches out to shake his hand. And says to herself,

"Oops , awkward”

because the glow worm has no hands . . . to shake!

Still acting as if everything is not a bit strange, she asks him

"Is The Mrs here; I thought I was just speaking to Mrs. M from behind the closed door?"

The glow worm is jittery and nervous, and just flitting about and talking fast.

"Mrs. M just stepped out; aah . . . No, no that's not quite right! Aah She is in the basement. Aah . . . No. . No She is looking for our cat Miss Mitzy. Yeah. THAT’S IT!! Miss Mitzy has gone missing again. Young lady, per chance, have you seen our cat, I mean my cat. No that's not quite right either! Have you seen Her cat?"

Still pretending that everything is normal-like, LinZ responds,

"Her what, who?"

“Miss Mitzy, you know. . . Her little black smiling Cheshire Cat?"

“No, not today. I have not seen any cats today"

The glow worm stares at her for about 20 minutes . . . then finally says

"My name is 'e-String'. You can call me ‘e’ It’s a pleasure to finally meet you . . .aah. . . What's your name again . . .aah, who are you, EXACTLY?"

LinZ Responds,

"I am LinZ. My dad sent me here to see Mrs. M . . . Something about getting 'Wisdom of the Ages'”

The glow worm looks LinZ over from head to toe, for ONE HOUR. Then looks LinZ dead in the eye and asks:

"You said you are 'LinZ' but are you EXACTLY 'LinZ'? Are you certain-sure you are not uncertain of your certainty?"

LinZ listened and thought . . . and thought . . .

"Yes I am LinZ, EXACTLY"

You shouldn’t be so 'EXACTING', you know . . "

"But you were the one who ask me to be exact?',

LinZ interrupted.

"I know exactly what I said. And it is quite rude of you to remind people EXACTLY what they said. Do you have any uncertain intentions? I am feeling quite uncertain about you, little miss. I trust you are not an ill-mannered little girl. Now, young lady, since you insist on being exact, tell me, what certain purpose are you here about?”

Now its LinZ turn to stare back; she stares back at the tiny little shimmering green glow worm wearing the green scarf, and,  with her mouth wide open, says to herself,

“This is like . . .

ALICE IN WONDERLAND how curious!”

As LinZ  stood staring, she squinted and looked again, and she could not believe her eyes. The little green glow worm was nowhere to be seen. Now she saw a polka dot red glow worm! She was looking up at LinZ. She was sporting a Mexican cowboy hat, wearing a single  cowboy boot and puffing on a cigar. She looked At LinZ and said,

"How-de-doo, pardoner, What can I do you fer?"

All the while spitting saliva in the spittoon behind the big old oak front door.

At this point LinZ has finally lost her patience, and says,

"Who or what the hell are you?!"

And she said,

"My pappy named me 't-String' but my friends call me Mary Jane and my bro’s call me ‘tee’. You look like you'd make a good friend, pardoner, you can call me Mary Jane. Nice to meet you, pardoner!"

Then, exasperated, LinZ said:

"You know what?"

"What, Pardoner?"

asked the tiny little red polka dot shimmering glow worm in the cowboy hat,  wearing a single cowboy boot on his foot, sporting a lit cigar and spitting in the spittoon behind the big old oak front door.

LinZ says,

"Never mind! This is Bull Cookie!"

She then turned around and headed for Centre Street.

As LinZ is heading home she says to herself

"I am not sure if dad is going to be disappointed but, I swear. I  just could not take much more of that "Alice-in-Wonderland" crappola.

As she ruminates to herself her Windows Phone rings.

"Hello?"

The strangely familiar voice asks,

"Is this LinZ?"

LinZ answers

"Yes, this is she"

The voice on the other end of the phone says

“This is Mrs. M. Please return right away. I have a little Wisdom I would like to share with you!”

LinZ became so excited she sprinted back hurriedly towards Mrs. M's. As she walked up to the big old oak front door of Mrs. M's , she tried to act real cool but she was excited and tense as all hell! finally . . .

"Could this really be it; finally The Mystery revealed?"

She said, being hardly able to contain her excitement!

The big old oak front door of Mrs. M’s suddenly swung wide open to reveal a marquee neon sign that flashed over and over again,

 *** Grand Ball Room***

 ***Grand Ball Room ***

  The Grand Ball Room was abuzz with a large crowd of the weirdest  looking characters as there ever could be. Each was wearing a name tag around his or her neck. They were a jamboree jolly lot. Some were telling jokes. Others were rolling on the carpet laughing at some funny joke someone had just said. And there were many champagne toasts. The Grand Ball Room had a discotheque atmosphere, revealing to LinZ a motley brew of celebrity Particle-String character-personalities crowded together in a dizzying delightful display of charmed alacrity.

At one corner of The Grand Ball Room stage there was a mysterious silhouetted figure.

“Could that be Mrs. M’s silhouette?” LinZ wondered to herself.

While she was squinting to make out what she thought was Mrs. M’s face in the shadows, Linz felt a tug on her shirt tail and heard a voice saying,

“Hey, pardoner, what can I do you fer?”

And she realized:

“It’s that polka dot glow worm in the Mexican hat!”

She looked up at LinZ curiously, and she had a cigar dangling from the left side of her mouth. She said:

“Haven’t we met before, pardoner? I remember you now. My Cuz, e, told me all about you . . . ‘Seeker of Wisdom of the Ages’, right, pardoner?”

“Aah . . .right; my dad sent me to see Mrs. M. is that Mrs. M I see up there on stage?” LinZ asked her.

After spitting in the spittoon behind the old oak front door, t-String pulled LinZ towards her

“Come, meet my five other brothers and sisters. I told them all about you, and they are curious; they are dying to meet you, pardoner!”

And once again spitting in the spittoon behind the old oak front door.

“There are FIVE MORE like this one?” 

LinZ said to herself in disbelief.

As tee pulled her, LinZ tried to get away, saying 

“Can I go up on stage and talk to Mrs. M for a little while?”,

LinZ pleaded. But tee just kept pulling on her shirt tail, acting as if she did not hear LinZ. LinZ turned her head and looked up and she saw that she was in the middle of a ring and she was surrounded by six little curious glow worms.

The one with the backwards-turned red Yankee cap was picking his nose and tee said:

“u, this is the little lady pardoner I was telling you about. Didn’t I tell you she was cute as a button?”

And turned and looked up at LinZ and said:

“Hey, pardoner, I think my bro, u, likes you!”

“It’s a real pleasure to meet you, u”

LinZ said, as u tipped his backwards-turned red Yankees Cap at her.

u looked up at Linz for a long while, constantly tipping his backwards-turned red Yankees cap and picking his nose

“I wish he would stop picking his nose!”,

LinZ exclaimed to herself as she smiled down at u.

u finally spoke:

“Hi, my name is u-String. This my lil sis, d-String, but you can call her dee dee”

dee dee was curled up in a tight little knot and another little glow worm was trying to untangle the knot she was tightly curled up in. This other little glow worm was working very feverishly trying very hard to unbundle dee dee, then he suddenly took off the big yellow sponge wrapped around his forehead and proceeded to sit on top of dee dee’s head!

LinZ looked up curiously at tee with a look on her face that seemed to ask

“Why is that little glow worm that had a  big yellow sponge wrapped around his forehead sitting on that other little glow worm that’s tied herself in a tight knot?”

Linz kept looking straight down at tee hoping to get a straight answer. tee looked back straight up at LinZ with the little cigar still dangling from the corner of her mouth, and then proceeded to spit in the spittoon behind the old oak front door.

Linz heard a loud thundering laughter coming from behind her. She turned and saw a fourth little glow worm rolling around and around, banging his little tale against a fifth little glow worm shaped like the letter S. Linz looked at tee again, then tee finally said

“That’s truthace he likes to sit on dee dee’s head. Its okay she doesn’t mind one bit. That’s charmonium he is quite a character, isn’t he? And that’s Ms.S. Ms.S, please say hello to our honored pardoner, Linz”.

LinZ did not know quite what to say at this point. Linz just sat speechless in the middle of the ring surrounded by the six little shimmering glow worms,

t-String, Mary Jane, tee

u-String, u

d-String, dee dee

s-String, Ms.S

c-String, Charmonium

b-String, truthace

LinZ was still sitting there trying to make sense of it all when she felt something warm furry and fuzzy and heard a “meow” coming from her lap. Snuggled up in her lap was a black cat and it seemed to have a weird looking grin on its face! Suddenly, a loud “CRASH!!” could be heard coming from near The Ball Room stage, and everything on the stage seemed to be falling  and tumbling all about. Linz noticed a familiar looking little shimmering greenish glow worm looking under the platform of The Ball Room stage. The little green glow worm had a worried look on its face. He was looking about under the platform shouting at the top of his voice

 “MITZY!MITZY!MITZY!! . . .Mitzy, I Know you are under there . . .I'll tell Mrs. M. . . you know I will, right!? And you know what is going to happen! Surely you have not forgotten what happened the last time. I am sure you don't want to spend another night in the cage. Be a good little girl, Mitzy. Please, Mitzy dear. Do  come from under there right this minute! NOW! NOW! RIGHT NOW, young little missy!”

All the while mopping the rain of sweat dripping down from her brow with a green rag.

 LinZ looked down at the cat in her lap. The black Cheshire Cat sitting in her lap had on a green glowing pair of oversized spectacles. The black Cheshire Cat sitting in her lap had green glowing eyes. The black Cheshire Cat snuggled up in her lap had a "stupid grin on its face”, LinZ thought to herself. Suddenly the black Cheshire Cat sitting in her lap with piercing green eyes that is wearing an oversized green pair of spectacles that had green glowing eyes and that “stupid weird grin on its face”, suddenly jumped up and disappeared inside LinZ’s bosom!

Says e-String to LinZ

“Per chance, little girl, per chance. Have you seen our cat, I mean my cat. No that's not quite right either! Have you seen Mrs. M’s Cheshire Cat, Ms. MItzy?"

Ask the little shimmering green glow worm who stared at LinZ, for what seemed like about twenty minutes. LinZ responded

“No, not today. I have not seen any cats today",

She lied, as Mitzy licked on her tummy.

Then LinZ thought to herself

“ This conversation sounds awfully familiar . . .”

“Déjà vu . . .?”

“This is like . . .

ALICE IN WONDERLAND how curious!”

LinZ was in a state of Déjà vu when, from the corner of her left eye she noticed a curious sight. She saw a big beefy fat shimmering green glow worm in green ear muffs walking with a green Cheshire Cat on a leash! LinZ rolled her eyes and exclaimed

“What on God’s Green Earth . . .??!!” 

While she stood there dumb founded she heard the red Polka dot glow worm say:

“That’s e’s big bro; his pappa named him mu-String but we call him muey That fat cat he’s walking is Fritzy; Fritzy prefers to be called neut”

LinZ thought to herself

“‘neut’? Could that be short for ‘neutrino’? I remember learning about electrons and neutrinos in my Quantum Physics class. And muey? Isn’t there an electron-like particle called The Muon?

LinZ felt a tug on her shirt tail and looked down to see tee looking up at her saying

“You are right, pardoner”

“Right about what?”, asked Linz

“you are right about Quantum Physics”, said tee

LinZ became  nauseated just hearing ‘Quantum Physics’. Then tee went on

“e-String is an electron. His cat, Ms. Mitzy, is a neutrino. He is very fund of that cat/neutrino. To be exact, Mitzy is an electron neutrino and, yes, you guessed it Fritzy is a Muon neutrino. They have a bigger brother, but he is a huge big bully. He is so huge that when he walks the ground vibrates, and he is always snorting and coughing. I think it is because he smokes so much”

LinZ scratched her head, and thought, and thought . . .

Wait! Wait a minute! I remember now. There are actually three kinds of electron type particles. The name of the third one is Tauon and he has a related neutrino called a tau neutrino! This is all making sense now. Did Mrs. M set you guys up to mess with me? Is this the doing of Mrs. M? Is she trying to teach me Quantum Physics? I had to drop it in college because it made my head hurt and gave me seizures!”

Now Linz begun to pull her hair out.

As Linz stood there pulling her hair out in big clumps, she felt another tug on her shirt tail. Mary Jane said

“Can you guess what I am?”

A light bulb suddenly went off in Linz’s head as she said:

“Of course . . . you must be a quark. And those five others are the five other quarks, because I know there are only six quarks!.

Linz smiled triumphantly and said:

“I actually remember their names :-  

up quark/down quark.........(u/d)

strange quark/charm quark....(s/c)

top quark/bottom quark.....(t/b)

You guys are quarks, aren’t you? The six quarks that particle physicists jabber about all live long day!

And I remember the names of the electron types and their neutrinos:

Electron/ e-neutrino....(e/ν_e)

Muon/mu-neutrino........(μ/ν_μ)

Tauon/tau-neutrino......(τ/ν_τ)

Where is Mrs. M? I have got to see her. I have so many questions to ask her! I actually didn’t think Quantum Physics could be fun, exciting and interesting, but I could get used to this!”

Suddenly LinZ’s Windows Phone rings

“Hello? Oh, hi, mom. Guess what? I am learning Quantum Physics, and . .   Okay. So you want two oxtails, some thyme and a loaf of hard dough bread?”

As she said ‘Quantum Physics’ She braced herself for a wave of nausea, possibly followed by seizures, but nothing happened. Then she hung up and said

“Please tell Mrs. M I have to go to pick up some grocery for my mom, but I’ll be back tomorrow to see her. Bye!”

The  curious group of quantum particle-strings stood around Mrs. M. They all  watched through the big old oak front door as LinZ ran down Centre Street excitedly dancing, skipping and singing, and pulling her hair out. Mrs. M scratched her head, looked at her children and smiled to herself. The other quantum-particle-strings, and quantum-superstrings, nodded their heads and agreed

 “That little girl is really weird and pretty strange!”

The next day there are loud knocks on LinZ’s door:

KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!!

LinZ lifts her head from her pillow but then falls back asleep. The knocks get louder and more persistent:

KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!! KNOCK, KNOCK!!KNOCK!! KNOCK!!

There was a loud ‘THUD!’LinZ woke up. She found herself on her bedroom floor; she had a knot on her forehead where she had slammed it when she fell, and  her head stung with pain. But she was more annoyed than she was hurt. As she held up her head in her two hands, she said in a slurred tone of voice:

“Who . . . who.. is it. What do you WaaaAAANT?!!”

Said LinZ, with drool sliming down the right side of her face.

“Does a ‘Misz. LinZ’ live here?”

Speeeaaking!!

“I am a messenger”

“So . . .What is it you want from MY LIFE?!”

“I have a message”

“What! . . . IS!  . . . THE MESSAGE?!! Who . . .

is this?!”

LinZ was about to dial ‘911’ when the voice responded:

“My name is Mr. Pi-On. Mrs. M gave me a message to give to you”

"Wow! Mrs. M went to the trouble of sending a messenger to give me a message? Wow!"

Said LinZ to herself.

“Hold on! I am coming!”

And then LinZ ran down the stairs to the front door.

When she opened the door, LinZ was quite taken aback. Standing in the doorway was a fairy tale character: A Knight in ‘Shining Armor’! What was shocking and funny at the same time, though, was that he was literally ‘two-faced’! One face was white and smiley. And, what you would expect to be the back of his head, was another face, that was red and frowning. She tried really hard not to burst out laughing. The ‘Knight’ looked on as LinZ rolled around on the floor laughing uncontrollably!

Mr. Pi-On was not at all amused. Linz slowly took control of herself and said:

“What’s the message, please, sir?”

Mr. Pi-On unrolled a scroll and read:

“Oh Ye, Oh Ye. On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month in the two thousand fourteenth year of our Lord and Savior, be it known to all ye men that The Highest Most Royal Representative of the Mystic Order of The T-O-E, HER Highest Majesterium, Mrs. M, invites, Misz. LinZ, to tea”

As Mr. Pi-On rolled up his scroll he looked down. LinZ was rolling on the floor in uncontrollable fits of laughter. 

Mr. Pi-On’s white face was serious, and his red face became black and he was frowning even more than before. Apparently, he was not at all amused.

As LinZ stepped through the now familiar big old oak front door she was warmly greeted by a most distinguished looking gentleman. He was smartly attired in a black Signature Italian pinstripe suit, black J. Crew Isotoner gloves, black Nike Racer sneakers, and topping off his jazzy look with a spiffy black bowler hat.

“Very impressive!”,

LinZ thought to herself.

The gentleman welcomed her saying:

“Misz. LinZ, I welcome you to our humble abode. My name is Boson,    Higg Z.M. Boson. Please, call me Ziggy”

“Please, call me LinZ. I am delighted! No offense, but, actually I was invited to have tea and discuss Quantum Physics with Mrs. M”,

said LinZ. She had the feeling Mrs. M was not around

 “as usual!”,

she thought to herself, and some disappointment could be heard in her voice.

“No offense taken. Regrettably Mrs. M had to leave to attend to some pressing and urgent business. She wanted me to extend Her most sincerest apologies and to say She will be delighted to join us later this evening”

Ziggy continued:

“Actually I am well versed in Quantum Physics. What would you like to talk about? Fermions, bosons, mesons, the graviton, the antigraviton, hadrons, leptons and baryons . . .pick a quantum-string particle, any quantum-string particle?”

“I have one for you. How about ‘Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle’"

“If I studied this principle for a thousand years it would still boggle my mind!”

“One lump or two?”

“Well, only one lump. That lump on my forehead is still quite sore and…”
  

“Pardon me, Madame, I meant one or two lumps of sugar?”

“Two lumps”

“Well, that was embarrassing!”,

 LinZ said to herself sheepishly.

“No boast, but I was with Werner Heisenberg when he discovered his Uncertainty Principle!”, 

Boasted Ziggy proudly.

“No way!”

  

Said LinZ in incredulous disbelief.

“Yes Way!” 

Confirmed Higg Z. and giggling like a school girl!

“Go ahead, tell me about the Uncertainty Principle, make my day, please!?”

Exclaimed LinZ.

“Look at the expressions below

1.        ΔmΔv X Δx  ≥ h  (h is Planck’s constant) (which is sometimes written without  [Δm])

2.        ΔE X Δt  ≥ h

3.        wave/particle  ≥ h

#1 is saying the pair of terms on the left side (Δv/Δx) are like Siamese twins that can never be separated. So, just like these twins, it’s difficult to say where Δv begins and ends. When the Siamese twins are equal to h, if you reduce the size of one, say Δx, the other twin, Δv, will grow because both must be equal to h. The twins Δv/Δx; ΔE/Δt; ‘wave/particle’ are really the two portions of h”

Then LinZ ask for clarification:

“But can the ‘Siamese twins’ size be bigger than the size h?”

“Yes. Now imagine shrinking the Siamese twins down. Can the twins be shrunk down to a size smaller than h? No, because h is the smallest size there is in nature. Now I say to you, take the shortest measuring instrument you can find and measure the size of each twin. The shortest size there is in existence is h. So what’s the size of each of the Siamese twins exactly? How are you going to accurately measure the size of each when both are smaller than the smallest measuring stick there is, h? The most you can say is that each twin is definitely smaller than h, since both together equal h, but you would not be able to measure each twin's size exactly, because you won’t find a measuring stick shorter than h to get each’s exact measure. To use a classic example, let’s talk about an electron’s ‘Siamese twins’, that is, its velocity, v, and its distance, x,  from another (stationary) electron. The most you can say is that the electron’s velocity size, v, and its distance size, x, is definitely smaller than h but you could definitely NOT be able to measure its v’s or its x’s exact size because you would not find a measuring stick shorter than h to get each’s  exact measure. The best you could do is say that the electron’s velocity measure, at minimum,  is an UNCERTAIN amount, Δv, less than h and the electron’s distance measure, x, at minimum, is an UNCERTAIN size, Δ x, less than h. you would definitely be able to say the size of both the electron’s velocity, Δv, and the electron’s distance, Δ x, TOGETHER is exactly h, but you would be most definitely quite uncertain about the exact size of either Δv or Δ x, SEPARATELY, and the expression below (without Δm),

1.        Δv X Δx  ≥ h  (h is Planck’s constant)

says this is ‘impossible, AND forbidden by MOTHER NATURE’”

And LinZ said;

“This is the first time  someone completely explained 
‘Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle’, 
to me, and made me completely understand it. Ziggy, you are good! And that’s a fact Jack!”

LinZ and Ziggy gave themselves ‘High Fives’, hugged and laughed until their sides hurt!!

LinZ pleaded after Ziggy,

“Geez! Ziggy! Teach me more! Teach me more Quantum physics, please!”

“I’ll not only teach you Quantum Physics, I’ll explain why String Theory is The T.O.E.”

“What is this T.O.E? I heard it mentioned by Mr. Pi-On?

 And now LinZ is about to burst out laughing, imagining Mr. Pi-ON with his ‘two-face’ with his two mouths reading from the scroll, luckily Ziggy caught her interest with:

“The ‘T.O.E.’ stands for ‘Theory of Everything’”

“‘Theory of Everything’? You’re kidding me, right?”

“I kid you not, LinZ; ‘T.O.E.’ is the ‘Theory of Everything’”

“This explanation I have GOT to here! Go ahead, make my day; talk TOEty to me”

 LinZ said, giving Ziggy a ‘Dirty Harry’ look!

“String theory, or has it is popularly styled these days ‘Superstring Theory’ aka ‘The Theory of Everything’ aka ‘T.O.E.’”

LinZ stared deeply into Ziggy’s gray eyes and in silence:

Ziggy said to himself

“This is one scary broad!”

Linz interrupted his thoughts with

“What? Go on, will you!”

Ziggy was now a little afraid of what linZ would do if he did not go on, VERY AFRAID!!

So Ziggy went on:

“Aah. Yes. I’ll go on . . .”

“Planck’s constant, h,  is at the heart and soul of both Quantum Theory and the T.O.E.”  

Suddenly a black smiling Cheshire Cat sporting a leash jumped into Ziggy’s lap. Ziggy petted Mitzy. Then there were calls, shouts and hollering,

“Mitzy. Mitzeee! Missee! Pretty Missy!! Mitzy, where have you gone to now!! Oh dear me. Mrs. M is going to be so upset with me again. I asked Her if I could get the cat a leash and bell but Mrs. M wouldn’t hear of it, and now Mitzy is gone missing again”,

Someone said, talking to herself. It was e-String apparently looking for her e-neutrino, Ms. Mitzy (again). LinZ and Ziggy watched e run out through the big old oak front door and disappeared down Washington Ave, towards Joralemon. She had heard someone say

'When there is much uncertainty

and a shadow of a doubt,

Joralemon is the road 

to seek out

for certain,

without a doubt'

Then Mitzy grinned at LinZ, and before you could say ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ she had already jumped up and disappeared in Linz’s bosom!

LinZ rolled her eyes, looked at Mr. Higgs Z.M. Boson, and watched him roll around on the floor in fits of hysterical laughter!

LinZ, trying to get back on topic, tried to ignore The black Cheshire Cat with green glowing eyes, wearing a green glowing pair of oversized spectacles, and, most likely, still has a “stupid smirk on its face”, tried to ignore that black Cheshire Cat snuggled up in her bosom, licking at her navel. No one can begin to imagine her relief when the black Cheshire Cat climbed out, said “meow”, ran through the big old oak front door, walked slowly down Washington Ave and followed her master down Joralemon Street

She watched Ziggy still in hysterics on the floor. She was certainly not amused.

Ziggy finally stopped laughing. He got up and dusted himself off, and said to Linz. 

“LinZ, please, accept my apologies. Sorry, that was very rude of me”

Now LinZ rolled on the floor in hysterical fits of laughter. Ziggy started laughing again, holding his side, and said

 

“Don’t make me laugh any more, you are making my sides hurt!”

 

He continued to laugh holding his left side.

Both finally got up off the floor, and LinZ agreed,

“That was funny”

Then LinZ said to Ziggy

“Okay. You were saying ‘h is the heart and soul of quantum physics and the T.O.E.’. How is that?”

Ziggy begins:

Take 'e-String, my wife, please!

“'e-String is your ‘wife’? Ziggy, are you gay for real?”

Ziggy protested,

“No, I am not gay! That was just a sad Henny Youngman joke”

“e-String is a chain of quantum strings”

“Quantum string?”

“You know a piece of string, a very tiny bit of string”

“How tiny?”

“Very, very tiny. Very, very tiny indeed! The Quantum string is smaller than an atomic nucleus. An atomic nucleus is smaller than an atom. If an atom was the size of a cherry, the nucleus would be like the pit of the cherry. If this cherry pit was as big as the universe the quantum string would be as big as a beach ball!!

“Wowza, wowza!!” 

Said LinZ, with her eyes bugging out when her jaw hit the floor. Ziggy continued:

Ziggy continued:

“A quantum string loop is a piece of string in the shape of a cicle.  e-String is a chain of this circular loop. In fact all these quantum-string particles are chains of circular string loops”

“So you are saying any one of the six quarks are chains of quantum string loops?”

“Exactly. Yes, they are basically quantum string loops, and the        e-neutrino, Mitzy, is a chain of quantum-string-loops. 

“What about photons?”

“Yes. A photon is also a chain of quantum-string-loops

“Oh. I have a question. Is a photon a particle or a wave?”

Said LinZ showing off her ‘Quantum Physics’smarts

“That is a smart question. This question is being asked by every physicist the world over!

“Do you know the answer, Ziggy”

I think so.

“Of course you do, Ziggy. Aren’t you ‘very learned in quantum physics and the T.O.E.’?”

“Okay, I’ll make a go of it . . .”

Ziggy continued, though not feeling so ‘certain’ of himself:

“A photon is a quantum-string-particle-chain”

“That is a mouthful, Linz interrupted”

“Please, don’t interrupt”

“I am very sorry, please, go on”

“It is not such a ‘mouth-full’.‘Quantum’ simply means the size of the quantum-string. ‘quantum-string’ means a very very tiny bit of string. Let me tell you how tiny this bit of quantum string is. Remember that cherry pit (I mean the atomic 'cherry-pit' nucleus)? Well a hundred million million million quantum strings (100,000000,000000,000000) could be lined up a cross that pit!!! In fact this quantum-string is the smallest thing there is, or says String Theory/M-theory.”

“M-theory. Are you referring to Mrs. M?”

“Well, yes and no”

When is Mrs. M coming back anyway? She is not coming back, is she?”

“Mrs. M always keeps her promises. She is very important and very busy, you know”

“Yeah, right,  ‘very busy’,  of course. That explains her usual absence, of course!

LinZ said, sarcastically.

“She’ll be here, I promise. Don’t you worry!”

Ziggy continues:

“M-Theory is the T.O.E.”

“So what is ‘M-Theory’?”

“We are getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s continue with the quantum-string-loop”

“You mean the quantum string in the shape of a loop?”

“Yes”

Ziggy continued:

“This tiny quantum-string-loop is the heart and soul of quantum theory”

Wait I thought you said h was the ‘heart and. . .’

Well, yes, h is that. h is the smallest bit of energy that there is in nature, and it is the energy within the smallest thing in nature, the quantum-string-loop. It takes energy to do any work, even the work of making a measurment. Well h is the smallest bit of 'energy of measure' there is.

“Okay, now explain how e-String is a chain of quantum-string-loops again”

“Okay. Take a quantum-string-loop. Make a chain out of this quantum-string-loop. And walla! I give you e-String

“So e-String is a chain of quantum string-loops?”

"‘Walla! I mean, yes, that’s correct”

"What about a photon. This is just a string of quantum-string-loops?”

“Yes”

“But isn’t a photon a boson?”

Said LinZ, showing off that she is now versed in ‘The Quanta’

“You are correct, Misz ‘quantum Physicist’, you are absolutely correcto-mundo. However even though e-String and the photon boson are strings of quantum-string-loops, they are different from each other”

“They sure are different. The photon moves at the speed of light but an electron doesn’t”

“True, true. They are quite different. Very impressive, LinZ, very impressive! However we are getting ahead of ourselves” 

“Okay, you were saying . . .”

“Okay. Let us compare the electron and the photon. They are both  quantum-string-loop-chains. However the electron is a spin-1/2 chain of quantum-string-loops”

“Sorry. What is ‘spin-1/2’?”

Spin-1/2 means an half-cycle spin

"Aah!?"

"Okay. Think of a spinning top"

"Go on"

"Imagine this top turning in a clockwise fashion. If this top has two faces. One face and another face, on the back of its head"

"You mean like Mr. Pi-On", 

LinZ said, smiling.

"Sort of. Anyhow when the top turns half way it will reveal its other identical face. Not so with the photon. The photon has only one face like me and you and you can only see its face again only when it turns completely around, just like you and me. Well, this half-spin that the electron makes revealing one of its two faces in a half (180 degrees) of a turn is what makes the electron differ with the photon. The electron is ‘two-faced’, the photon only has one face like you and me. In fact, technically speaking, the photon is a pair of . . .”

“How is the photon ‘a pair’ and a pair of what?”

“Glad you asked.” 

Ziggy said, a tad annoyed that LinZ cut him off in the middle of a very important point he had started to make. Then he continued.

“A photon is technically an electron-positron-pair. This is why the photon is regarded as ‘spin-1’ (spin-1/2 + spin-1/2)”

“Explain the difference between ‘spin-1/2’ and ‘spin-1‘?”

Spin-1/2: ‘SPIN’ means turning in a circle clockwise or anticlockwise. Our electron spins clockwise and . . .

“Ziggy, stop. How can an electron spin?  It seems plainly impossible to me that a near-point particle  can spin”

“I agree that an electron can be impossible, like being a wave and a particle at the same time! However, it has been demonstrated that an electron spins, just like the earth spinning on its axis.  An electron is a spinning quantum-string-loop-chain. How one identifies an electron from a photon is that an electron turns half way to reveal its other identical face as it turns in a clockwise fashion. However a photon turns completely around in a clockwise fashion to show its face again, just like you have to turn around completely, otherwise I would not see your face, again. And I would so miss that cute little face of yours”, teased Ziggy

“You were saying the electron is a spin-1/2 particle and  . . .’”

LinZ, I never said the electron is a particle; I said the the photon is ‘one-faced’ and the electron is ‘two-faced’ and  is a quantum-string-loop-chain, I did not say ‘particle’

“What is the difference, though, Ziggy?”

“When you say ‘particle’ you seem to be saying that the electron is a point, not a chain of quantum string-loop”

“Well, from where I am standing an electron IS a point-particle”

Insisted LinZ

“LinZ, what do you mean by ’point-particle’?”

LinZ thought . . . and thought . . .and thought some more, and said

“Yeah. WHAT is a ‘point-particle’ anyway?”

“Remember when we talked about Heisenberg?” Ziggy reminded Linz.

“Yes. You said there are ‘Siamese-twin-pairs’ like Δv/Δx that cannot be separated”

“Yes, and I also said these pairs are the ‘two portions’ h, Planck’s constant”

“Yes, and you also said that if you grow one of the Siamese-twins the other one must shorten because they are equal to h, so that changing one Siamese-twin will grow or shrink the other Siamese-twin”

Exactly! You do understand Werner Heisenberg’s ‘Uncertainty principle’”

“Of course, I am learning from the best”

Ziggy blushed. And said

“Well, what can I say; you are my best pupil, LinZ!”

The mutually-admiration-society-pair blushed, together! 

“But, LinZ, there is more. The Siamese twins TOGETHER, are equal to h and cannot be smaller than h TOGETHER, and they especially cannot be equal to zero . . .”

“Because zero length size, a dimentionless point,  does not exist in reality. In real nature; zero length is only a mathematical and theoretical concept”

Said LinZ, trying to complete Ziggy’s sentence.

LinZ continued,

“Okay. You were saying the photon is spin-1 because it is a pair of . . .”

“Yes, as I was saying, the photon is made up of various pairs of opposite particles. Let’s look at the case when the photon is made of an electron and its opposite, the positron: the electron is spin-1/2 and the positron is also spin-1/2. simple arithmetic, really; the electron's spin-1/2 + the positron's spin-1/2 = photon's spin-1. However, this adds up to '1' only because the electron spins clockwise and the positron spins anticlockwise. If both were turning in the same fashion, for example, clockwise, the spin would total 'spin-1/2' and you would not have a photon; they would bounce off each other instead of colliding violently with each other. Because they spin in opposite directions, if a positron and an electron meet it is an extremely violent encounter and they annihilate, disappear,  and a photon appears. This is called a matter-antimatter collision, because an electron is matter and a positron is antimatter”

“Okay, Ziggy , answer this one:  is a photon a particle or a wave?”

Ziggy responded:

“The quantum physics answer is that a photon is sometimes a particle and sometimes a wave. Physicist the world over have repeated the classic ‘Double Slit Experiment’ for a hundred years and millions of times, with the most subtle and most advance technology available, only to get the same weird and strange results over and over again. Set up two screens in front of each other. put two holes in one of the screens and put this screen in front of the other screen. Photons passing through the holes will hit the screen behind. Two very different results are seen depending whether or not the photons are passing through one or two holes in a screen. If one hole is blocked so that photons can only pass through the unblocked hole, the photons passing through the first screen hit the screen behind leaving a random spread of hits on the screen behind it. However, when both holes are open and photon passes through both holes, the hits make an interference pattern on the screen behind. this kind of pattern, an interference pattern, a wave pattern, is what you would expect if liquid, like water, passed though a barrier with two holes in it like our screen set up. Now if a photon is a particle and not a wave, has some thought, an interference pattern should not form. The physicist was expecting to get a random spread of hits where the photons strike the screen when they passed through the two holes in the front screen, not a 'wave', or interference pattern. For the last hundred or so years, every single time this experiment was done very accurately, soberly and with much care,  the physicists would get the same strange result. A photon passing through one hole only, no interference/wave pattern. However, allow the  photon a choice of two holes and, get this, it passes through both holes AT THE SAME TIME! And, here is the weird and spooky thing: When the experimenter is not watching a photon as it passes through the screen with to two holes they get one result; when they are watching the photon as it passes through the screen with the two holes they get a completely different result. Whether or not there is a random spread of hits on the screen behind or hits in a wave pattern depended on whether or not the experimenter was watching or not watching the photon as it passed through the screen with the two holes!"

“Ziggy, I bet those experimenters were eating wild mushrooms and smoking Mary Janes. One photon cannot pass through two holes at the same time, you know that, right Ziggy?"

“LinZ, go ahead, do the experiment for yourself. in fact, I'll help you set things up. I have done this experiment for more than forty years and it just does not make any sense to me or anybody for that matter. It should not matter to a photon if it is being watched or not. But, you’ll see for yourself. Crazy as it seems, a photon seems to behave one way when it is not being observed, and then seen to behave in a completely opposite manner when it is being watched!”

“Ziggy, do you take drugs?”

“Well , yes . . .”

“ha aah!!”

LinZ exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger at Ziggy.

“For my blood pressure, I mean”

“You weren't drinking any Gray Goose laced with Ecstasy while you and your quantum physicist buddies were performing this 'Double Slit Experiment' were you? I know; Gray Goose blended with Ecstasy can cause some wild,  weird and crazy tripping!”

“You know I am sober right now. Let's perform the 'Double Slit Experiment'”

And so they did. They carefully performed very many repeats of the ‘Double Slit Experiment'. 


"Ziggy was right. What photons were consistently doing in these many many repeats and multiple variations of these Double Slit experiments defied common sense as well as logic",


LinZ said afterwards.

“Ziggy, do you have any Ecstasy?”

Begged LinZ.

“No. why do you need Ecstasy?”

“The trips that I have been on while on Ecstasy are much less weird than the results of this experiment. How about MJ? You got any stash?”

“I told you, LinZ; it just does not make any sense. You believe me now, don’t you?”

“This is nuts. How can one particle be a wave and a particle at the same time? And how does a photon knows it is being observed? And why does a photon ‘care’ whether or not it is being watched? A photon does not have a mind to ‘care’. This is just plain nuts. Now I know how Alice feels!”

“Who?”

Asked Ziggy curiously.

“Alice; you know ‘Alice in Wonderland’”

“Sorry, never been there”

Said Ziggy.

“It’s a childhood classic. You should get it on your Kindle ereader from Amazon. It’s a free download”

Recommended LinZ, and Ziggy answered,

 “I will, very curious”

 

“Does M-Theory has an answer as to why a photon seems to appear as a wave when ‘no one is observing it’ but a particle when ‘someone is watching it’?”

“M-Theory physicists and superstring physicists think they might have an explanation. They think that the conceptualizing of quantum phenomena as ‘particle’ phenomena is causing confusion”

“Oh yeah! I think I have an explanation too!”

“You do!? Said Ziggy. Go ahead, LinZ. Teach it!”

Encouraged, Ziggy

“Okay. A quantum ‘particle’ is not a particle per se. If you regard a particle as an entity that may assume any size your heart desires you are going to be introducing absurdities in your measurements and calculations and get bizarre results like ‘infinity’ and ‘infinitesimally small’ and ‘zero size’. The Planck size is an unimaginably tiny size but it is neither an infinitesimally small size nor zero size. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle shows that a quantum particle is quantized”

“Do you think you really appreciate what ‘quantized’ means, LinZ

“Yes, quite well”

“Go ahead, teach it!”

“'Size is quantized' means there is a minimum size in nature.  The smallest size there is, is the Planck size (0.00000000000000000000000000000000001, a decimal point with 34 zeros behind it, or 10^-35). A quantum string contains this minimum Planck size, and this Planck sized bit of string has a minimum amount of energy, h. ‘Zero energy. ‘Zero size’, even ‘zero time’ and ‘zero mass/weight’does not exist in real nature. These are mental constructs. These concepts do not exist in the world of MOTHER NATURE”

“Very impressive, LinZ, very impressive. Go on, teach it, LinZ!”

Ziggy said, cheering her on.

“Okay. Now if a photon is not a ‘size less particle’, then it has a size. Its size is extremely tiny, but it has size. A photon is a quantum ‘particle’; it is a quantum-string-loop-chain particle. A photon is a dancing vibrating string moving in time through space-time . . .”

“’Space-time’, you say. What kind of ‘concept’ is that, LinZ?”

“Well, I did study some Einsteinian Relativity Physics in high school, I am still undergoing therapy from some emotional scarring and I stopped twitching;  I have learned how to cope with the relativity demons and I am no longer on medication. Anyhow that is another story for another place and time”

“I can’t wait to hear it, in another ‘time and place’. Okay. Teach it”

“Like I was saying, A photon is a dancing vibrating string. A quantized string, a string with a certain minimum size. Remember again, let me reiterate, there is no such thing as a string smaller than the Planck size or zero ‘size’. And there is no string with energy less than h ,  and ‘zero energy’ is really a conceptual oxymoron. If you exist you must at least be Planck size or more and have at least Planck energy,  h, or more, never less, never zero”

“I get it. But how does that explain why a photon behaves like a particle one second when it is under observation and a wave the next when it is not being watched?”

“The key word that has been muddying the quantum physics waters is ‘PARTICLE’. when you use the word ‘particle’ it implies that the photon can have just about any size and maybe it has no size. However, we know now that this cannot be true. The photon has a size; it is not a dimensionless ‘point’-particle. If it is a vibrating quantum-string-loop-chain particle, as M-Theory says, it stands to rational reason it is actually just a wave, not a dimensionless particle with zero size. Then if it really is just a wave it is more like water and one should expect an interference pattern”

Ziggy commented,

“I like your reasoning, LinZ, but it is not ironclad”

“It’s not; boy do I know it’s not!”

“Remember, the photon behaves wave-like, as you say, ‘water-like wave phenomenon, ONLY when the experimenter is not observing it passing through the screen with the two holes”

“Yeah. That’s the part of the experiment that kept me up last night. I tossed and turned all night. It gave me nightmares of my family being chased by a single photon. We scattered about but the photon was chasing us all down simultaneously in every direction, AT the same time. I am still sweating remembering trying to escape that Mack Truck sized man eating  photon!”

“Easy, LinZ, easy. It was just a dream. No one, no photon is after you and your family”

“I don’t know, Ziggy, man. I just don’t know”

“Let me take a crack at it. However it is somewhat speculative and outlandish, some would say crazy. This is what M-Theory says. M-theory says we live in a multiverse of parallel universes. Every experiment is being done by observers in an infinite amount of parallel universes. All ‘Double Slit experiment' results occur. The ones that we don’t see in our universe took place in another, but in a parallel universe within the multiverse. Experimenters in all the other parallel universes in the infinite multiverse are doing experiments with our photon too! We observe a result of hits in a random pattern on the screen when we experiment on our photon. Another experimenter experimenting with ‘our’ photon in another parallel universe observes an interference, wave pattern, on his screen. It’s a big multiverse out there with infinite parallel Earths. Your parallel twin on that parallel Earth sees an interference, wave pattern. However, you see a random pattern on your screen. Both results appear, but in different parallel universes in the multiverse”

LinZ looked at Ziggy for a while, silently, and then asked:

“Ziggy, I know I asked you this before but I have to ask again. Are you sure you did not drink Gray Goose with Ecstasy in it. It’s just between me and you. I promise I will not tell a soul? And, if you don’t, I have some in my car . . .”

Ziggy looked at Linz for a while and said,

“Okay, let us change the subject”, advised Ziggy.

“Agreed”, LinZ responded.

“Let me see if I get this. An electron is a spin-1/2-quantum-string-loop-chain. . .”

“spin-1/2-quantum-string-loop-chain’ that’s beautiful, Linz! go on!”

“You like that, aah”

Dancing around the room,Ziggy said,

“Music to my quantum-physics-quantum-string-ears! Teach, Linz, teach!

Cheered on Ziggy.

“Yes, and a photon is a spin-1-quantum-string-loop-chain. . .”

“Teach it, Linz! Teach it!”

Said ziggy, teasing Linz some more.

"Will you stop it, Ziggy, I’m trying to be serious here!"

Said Linz, but she was eating up the praise Ziggy was washing over her.

“I promise, I won’t interrupt any more. Go ahead, teach it, make my day”, 

said Ziggy just before biting his lips.

“Ziggy isn't it just simpler and easier to call the electron and photon ‘particles’ though, since the term ‘particle’ is used so commonly”

Ziggy thought . . . and thought . . .

“I’ll give you that, as long as you keep in mind that the electron, photon and the rest are ‘spin-1/2-and-spin-1-quantum-string-loop-chain-quantum-strings”

"Hey, that is my line!"

LinZ laughed.

“Okay. I wont forget”

“Okay, Linz. Teach me! Teach it!”

“I which you would stop it already!”

“Mums the word”

 

Ziggy added,

“but teach it!”

"'Teach it'? Is there more, asked Linz”

"Okay I will wrap this up for us, LinZ. I don’t mean to lecture you but listen up",

Ziggy says to LinZ.

"Let's meet the quantum particles of The Standard Model of Quantum Physics:

First the quarks. You have already met t-String. Technically speaking this is the 't quark'. There are a total of six.

The up quark or.........u

The down quark or.......d

The strange quark or....s

The charm quark or......c

The bottom quark or.....b

The top quark or........t

The up quark and the other five come in six different colors:

Red, Green, Blue, Anti-Red, Anti-Green, Anti-Blue. Quarks are never seen dancing alone; they dance together as a trio or as pairs of waltzing quarks. Quark-dancing-trios are called baryons For example, uud, this is the quark-dancing-trio-baryon known to all as the proton. Another famous quark-dancing-trio-baryon is the neutron (udd).  waltzing quark/anti-quark pairs, or quark-waltzing-duos, are called mesons. Mesons are quark/anti-quark pairs(ǫǭ). You met one earlier, Mr. Pi-On. Technically speaking this is a pi meson (pion). An example is the up/anti-down quark pair (uđ) known as the positive-pion (ח⁺).  There are two other pions; the quark-waltzing-duo-meson, pi-minus (ח^-)(=ūd) and the quark-waltzing-duo-meson, pi-zero (ח⁰)(= uū, or dđ)

The quark-dancing-trio-baryons (example the proton), and the quark-waltzing-duo-mesons (example ח⁺) are part of the hadron ('heavy-weighters')dancers. That is, a 3-quark ‘quark-dancing-trio-baryon’ and a 2-quark ‘quark-waltzing-duo-meson’ are called hadrons. Actually 3-quark-baryons and 2-quark-mesons are hadrons. As you might have noticed, there are only two kinds of hadrons: baryons (3-quark combinations) and mesons (2-quark combinations).

 One interesting factoid about any quark-dancing-trio is that the 3 quark dancers in a trio must each have a different color than its other dance partners. For example uud (proton), consist of one red-u + one green-u + one blue-d. This combo gives a colorless(or white)proton or a white neutron: one red-u(u) + one blue-u + one green-d (uud)= proton, and udd = neutron. Quark duos would be red-u (u) + antired-d (đ) to give a white positive-pion in this example (uđ) = ח⁺⁾

 

The next set of quantum particles are the electron types. You met two earlier on. e-String is the famous electron (e) and his electron  neutrino (ν_e), Mitzy. If you noticed, Mitzy is always disappearing    (down Linz’s bosom). The other leptons (‘light-weighters’) are the    muon(μ)and its muon-neutrino (ν_μ); the tauon (τ) and its  tau-neutrino (ν_τ). Neutrinos are ghostly and elusive. They can pass through trillions upon trillions of miles of solid lead without stopping and without being seen!

Another set of quantum particles form a group called the boson. The best known is the photon (γ). Ordinary light is made up of photon bosons. Photons are massless and travel, always, at the fastest speed in the universe, 'the speed of light'. However the photon has heavier boson brothers that aren't spoken much of: W+, W- and Z⁰ (‘Z-nought’). And then there is the graviton boson. . .

Ziggy paused and then said;

. . . Not to get too off track But I forgot to mention something about the hadron (quark-dancing-trios) and meson (quark-waltzing-duos)dance troupes. They only dance to the tunes of the gluons. There are 8 gluon-string musicians and they make up the gluon String Octet  Players. If the world renown g-String Octet musicians ain't playing, the hadron-quark-dancing-trio-baryons and the hadron-quark-waltzing quark/antiquark-duo-mesons ain't dancing! He might be as weightless as a photon but a g-man string musician is the glue that keeps these dancers dancing and waltzing together!”

 "Okay, Ziggy, you are going too fast. Back up a bit. Lets talk ‘spin’ some more”,

LinZ continued:
                   

“Which of these quantum string loop chains is spin-1/2 and which is  spin-1?”

Ziggy responded,

“Actually quantum particles come in 4 different ‘spin’ modes:

Spin-1/2, spin-1, spin-0 and spin-2. Spin-1/2 quantum particles are electron types (known as Leptons =‘light-weighters’) and quark types called baryons (hadron 'heavy-weighters'). If you remember these are ‘quark-dancing trios’. The proton and the neutron are two examples of ‘quark-dancing-trios’ (proton = uud, neutron = udd). Quark/antiquark (ǫǭ) ‘quark-waltzing-duos’ are known as mesons and they are spin-0(like the pions). Bosons like the photon, W+, W-, Z⁰(‘Z-nought’) are spin-1. The last spin type is the graviton boson, which is spin-2. That just about does it for quantum-string particles”

“Nope, said LinZ”

“What do you mean by ‘nope’?”, asked Ziggy

“Aren't you forgetting one quantum string particle?” Asked Linz

Ziggy responded,

"Which particle might that be that I am forgetting?"

“Didn't physicist just discover a particle that was predicted more than forty years ago?”

“And which particle is this?”

“Stop being so modest!”

“I Beg your pardon, Madame?”

“Stop being coy and modest, 'Higg Z.M. Boson'. Yeah, right! I know who you are. Your name, ‘Higg Z. M. Boson’ is a poor cover. Admit it, Ziggy, your real name is The Higgs Boson, isn't it?”

Ziggy stood up and let the weight of modesty fall off his chest and said;

Yes, it is true, I am Sir Higgs Boson. Without being immodest, without me you are weightless. You literally have no gravitas without me. In all modesty, I am very influential to the personality of almost all the quantum particles. I give weight to the personality of the fermions like the hadrons and the leptons, and I weigh in heavily on the personality of most bosons, including the mesons like the three pions. Ask Mr. PiOn, he'll tell you about the work I do!. Except for the photon boson that I have no influence on, I ‘mass’ively influence the 'heavy B’s' (heavy Bosons): W+, W-, and Z^0”

“What about gravity?” inquired LinZ.
  

What about gravity. Why do people always compare me with this Punky Brewster, gravity. He is a light weight compared to me. It is true, both of us work together to give structure to the universe but, in all honesty, and I don't like to throw my weight around, but I do most of the heavy lifting in this corner of the multiverse!

Linz, trying to calm Ziggy, responded,

“Geez! Easy, Ziggy, easy. I did not mean to belittle the significant roll you play ‘in this corner of the multiverse’. If I implied that the work you do is  not of primary importance, then, please accept my apology”

Ziggy sat back down and said

“Apology accepted!”

And they both began to laugh and slap each other on the back, and then Ziggy continued:

“String theory is a description of our ordinary 1-dimensional quantum-string, like a two-ended piece of string. A quantum-string-loop is this piece of string in the shape of a 2-dimensional circle. This quantum-string-loop spinning is a '3-dimensional string'. A spinning loop would look like a tennis ball. This tennis ball changing in time is a '4-dimensional  string’. This is our ordinary space-time. This tennis ball moving in time and dancing about in various ways can give you a ‘5-dimensional string’, a ‘6-dimensional string’ up to the 11-dimensional string of M-Theory. This 11-dimensional superstring Theory, 10 spacial dimensions and one time dimension, is known as the so called 'Theory of Everything', the T.O.E. In other words, this 11-dimensional superstring theory, or ‘M-Theory’ is supposed to be the undiscovered 'Theory of Everything (T.O.E.)'"

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Inside The Grand Ballroom was standing room only.t-String, e-String, Mr. Pi-On, g-String and all the quark strings and all the rest of the quantum string particles and superstring particles stood around in a circle. The only opening to the circle was the open doorway of the big old oak front door entrance. They were all anxiously awaiting the return of The Mother-String-Loop of all quantum-string-loop-chains:

THE MOTHER OF:

Quark quantum String-Loop chains

Electron-type quantum String-Loop chains

Boson quantum String-Loop chains

gluon quantum String-Loop chains

The Graviton quantum String-Loop chain

 They were all awaiting Mrs. M.  Mrs. M. Stepped through the entrance of the big old oak front door and entered the Grand Ballroom hall only to be received by thunderous applause and standing ovations. She smiled and curtsied humbly. She was dressed modestly in a golf cap, polo tee shirt and shorts, and wearing tennis shoes and holding a tennis racket.

All Her children waited breathlessly for Her to speak. LinZ waited breathlessly for Her to express ‘the wisdom of the ages’,

And Mrs. M.  said:

“Tennis, anyone?”

LinZ turned to Ziggy with a confused look on her face. LinZ face said:

“‘The wisdom of the ages’?”

Ziggy smiled and said,

“’the wisdom of the ages’ is not such a big deal. All the experiences that make us who we are; all the experiences we enjoy and share together, is the content of Her wisdom in us. Mrs. M. is The Quantum-String-Loop. All the quantum string particles in the multiverse, you, me and everything in existence, are the different appearances and experiences of Mrs. M. in the multiverse”

LinZ stood up, looked at Mrs. M. in Her golf cap and tennis outfit and said to Ziggy,

“What now?"  to Ziggy

Ziggy said, 

“Get dressed,  put your tennis shoes on and put on your game face. We are going to play tennis with Mrs. M! She has a mean back hand. No one has  beaten Her yet. Let’s go, I am feeling lucky today!”