Re: String Theory and Letterman

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:56:07 -0800

cnctutwiler@wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> Brian Green was on Dave Letterman last night discussing his new book on
> string theory. Said this would tie quantum mech to relativity--and
> answer many questions. Letterman asked "And what will this do for
> me--how will it make my life better? ;-))

When the concept of a CPU ws introduced at Intel, the first question
asked was, "but what does it do?"

Now that we have Windows, the answer is obvious: "it promises to run
the operating system." 

-- 
Uncle Al
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