Tuesday, December 26, 2006

How stuff is made

Admin1: In How stuff is made Natalie Jeremijenko is interested in investigating how stuff is made.

Doctor Gravytee: Alphysics is about how stuff is made as well. We are very interested about building blocks of the universe and the stuff which makes up the universe and even more, we are also interested in the stuff which does not make up our universe.

A1: Dark Matter.

Dr. Gravytee: If everything were visible that would be too boring.

A1: Assume that semi-famous Alphysics Doctor Lisa Randall decides to study how stuff is made. She picks up one of the same projects from the How stuff is made site: how are fortune cookies are made?

Dr. G: Lisa Randall too is interested in how stuff is made. But there is a difference. Natalie is a scientist. Lisa Randall is a Scholastic Alphysics Doctor. They think differently. To investigate how stuff is made Natalie investigates how stuff is made. Natalie does not try to fit how stuff is made into a 17th century doctrine. Lisa Randall has her doctrine and wants to fit nature into that doctrine. To investigate how stuff is made Lisa Randall does not investigate how stuff is made. She already knows how stuff is made, she is after absolutes.

A1: So Randall will apply her doctrines learned from books to the manufacture of cookies.

Dr. G: Doctor Randall would say that fortune cookies are made in China by Chinese by 17th century methods called the Standard Model of making cookies. Then Lisa would write down equations that will reveal all of the messages in all of the universes that one can find in fortune cookies. This great discovery she will call Lisa’s Theory of Everything.

A1: But fortune cookies are manufactured in Philadelphia.

Dr. G: Faced with this experimental fact Doctor Randall will simply use her immense mathematical skills and write

Philadelphia = China

A1: That looks like a definition.

Dr. G: If Philadelphia = China is written in Nambu-Goto flavored action in AdS/CFT renormalized correspondence space you cannot tell that it is a definition.

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