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I stopped subscribing to Scientific American because of the plethora of articles describing multiple universes, clashing branes, extra dimensions & other fantastic notions.

For "Fourth Flavor of Neutrino? Physics Experiment Suggests Existence of New Elementary Particle", see : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101102185722.htm

Tevatron experiment points to 5 Higgs particles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10313875.stm

There's a Science Daily article on the strong force breaking parity law: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0329214740.htm

There's a Science Daily article on the strong force breaking parity law: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329214740.htm

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Results: bootstrap 3 results for: bootstrap Main Entry: bootstrap Function: transitive verb Date: 1951 Results: to promote or develop by initiative and effort with little or no assistance - bootstrapped herself to the top.

The 2 pictures and most of the opening statement have been taken verbatim from Lee Smolin's Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Chapter 10, pp.107 to 145.

Civilized asks: "How many nobel prize winners have spoken positively about LQG?" Gerard t’Hooft, joint winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics, says in his 1997 book, “In search of the ultimate building blocks”, on page 174: “another approach began with a formal analysis of quantum gravity...

Fredrik: It would be interesting to read your comments on the Scientific American article, "Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity" at http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=was-einstein-wrong-about-relativity

Frank Wilczek's interview, titled "What's Reality", can be listened to or downloaded at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/09/15

GRB, thanks for pointing out to me the short, but helpful Wikipedia article on the Higgs boson. Wish other Wikipedia physics articles were as easy to read by a layman, such as myself. However, the links you provided for "Force carrier" & "encarta" apparenly no longer exist.

Seems to me the simplest thing to do, is to create a new subforum titled “sci.physics.loops” to match the existing “sci.physics.strings”, and to move all future threads & posts relating to either strings or LQG to these 2 subforums. This would avoid all controversies & would help those seeking...

I am curious to find out why the 2 parts of the brain control the opposite sides of the body. This is the best I’ve found so far: “For some as-yet-unknown reason, nearly all of the signals from the brain to the body and vice-versa cross over on their way to and from the brain. This means that...

From Wikipedia's LQG page, under "LQG & Particle Physics": "Xiao-Gang Wen and Michael Levin are two solid-state physicists who have attempted to model elementary particles such as electrons and photons as resulting from a discrete lattice structure of spacetime in analogy to phonons in solid...

In Wikipedia’s LQG page, under LQG & Particle Physics, Bilson-Thompson’s theory is contrasted to Xiao-Gang Wen & Michael Levin’s theory. Is this still a valid comparison? GR