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/νe)
Muon/mu-neutrino........(μ/νμ)
Tauon/tau-neutrino......(τ/ντ)
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. Δp X Δx ≥ h (his Planck’s constant)
2. ΔE X Δt ≥ h
3. wave/particle ≥
h
1 is saying the pair of terms on the left side (Δp/Δx) are like
Siamese twins that can never be separated.When the Siamese twins are equal to h, Δx and twin Δp are both equal to One. Since there is nothing
smaller than h, then h is The One in nature. The twins Δp/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 (νe), 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 (νμ); the tauon (τ)
and its tau-neutrino (ντ). 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 Z0”
“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!”
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