Wednesday, May 7, 2008

String Theory

String theory explains everything, gravitational force, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, and electromagnetic force. it says that everything is made up of tiny vibrating strings of energy, strings that are so small that they make an atom look like the size of a sun in comparison.
I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, fine, that's a little too much like an ignorant savage. The thing is, I don't WANT to real deal with this kind of science, the one that talks about things that I cannot see, affect, or barely even imagine with my own two hands. I want to learn about things I can touch, create, and generally interact with. Dropping a little ball off of a ramp and calculating where it falls? Cool. Sloshing two liquids together and seeing them cancel each other out with all that acidity, and bases nonsense? Sure. Tiny little atoms, and the even tinier protons and neutrons and what not, and the even tinier things that make up those things, and then the tiniest of all strings?!?!? No. No, no, no, no, no. You, my friend, can find your little string theorist buddies and get together to giggle and cheer that you've found that oh so very wonderful 'theory of everything'
Science is NOT my world. I will quite happily limit my knowledge of science to the typical high school things, and only think of elements and what-not when I must concern myself of whether or not this or that will poison my frog. Or fish. Or tadpole. Or cat. Or dog. THAT would be biology. NOT STRING THEORY.