>>Hi,
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>>I was just trying to point out one of the inconsistencies in the current theoretical model in the simplest terms possible, but Hilmar won't budge from his point of view.
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>>BTW I have great trouble accepting a model that can only account for 4% of the matter in the universe and has to come up with a spooky concept of dark energy and dark matter to account for the other 96% to make their model work.
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>>I have done a fair bit of research (both practical and theoretical) on parts of this subject over the last 30 years, and
>>it wasn't until recently that firstly String Theory and then Membrane Theory were released that everything started to fall into place.
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>As a partially informed spectator, I'm quite interested in string theory - sounds promising. Any good link to a place where it'd be explained so that a mathematician with less-than-expert knowledge of physics may understand?
Perhaps you might start with Wikipedia.
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