Today, after having fun taking the car around for a ride from mechanic to mechanic I got another theory that the belt simply destroyed itself so no alternator was touched. I did some research, homework and went home to watch "Nova: The Elegant Universe". Very nice show about superstring theory. Not at all in depth, of course left more questions than answers, but two things kept me amazed: the amount of computer graphics used and how little people know about the existence of superstring theory. I watched it with two other friends that are in the science area and none had any idea what it was about.

A long discussion about what some of the concepts put in the program followed. It was fun, but it was kind of disappointing sometimes how people can be very narrow-minded. Well, it's easy to have problems to accept superstring theory. It is, for my knowledge, the first theory in Physics that was created based on purely mathematical, or philosophical reasons. Someone thought that Relativity and Quantum Physics as separate beings were too cumbersome to work with. An easier underlying theory has to be created to make calculations easier. It's hard to accept something that is not really based on any every-day phenomenon.

Imagine two membranes colliding and causing the Big-Bang... Can you picture it? Imagine that each membrane is a 3-dimensional universe like ours. And this is one of the theories for the Big-Bang that is supported by an interpretation of the superstring theory. It is fun, but you can certainly go crazy trying to visualize all this.