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Old 19-December-2006, 08:03 PM
Christian.Muys Christian.Muys is offline
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Christian, Hannes Alfven is not involved in string theory. I was just using his name as a reference to show where his contributions in one area did not neccesarily carry respect in another.
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My fault, I have no excuse for mixing up plasma cosmology with string theory or anything else, even after reading too many difficult and contrary things in too short time.
You are all very patient with me.

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I will give you another name. Brian Greene. His book "The Elegant Universe" should be understandable to you. It covers the starts and stops of string theory. Between that book and A Dim's link, you should have a pretty good idea, at the layman level, for string theory.
These, and previous references should keep me busy for a long time.
Gives you all a break from my stupid questions and remarks,... temporary :-)
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