Re: Scientific theory

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From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
To: "Randy Isaac" <rmisaac@bellatlantic.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: RE: Scientific theory

>I am no defender of string theory, but I must say that contrary to
>evolutionary theory, string theory can be cast into a precise mathematical
>formalism that may or may not describe nature. Witness the mathematical
>work of Bernhard Riemann, who posed the problem of how to define an
>n-dimensional space and ended up giving definition of what today is called
>a Riemannian space, so important to general relativity. The same may be one
>day with string theory. Evolutionary theory supposes species/species
>transitions that will forever escape experimental verification.

To Riemann alle Ehre, & maybe in the future to string theory. But what in
the world does your last sentence mean?

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Fri Dec 10 17:13:04 2004