[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Heather Perella]

Hey Platt,

     Platt said:  "Thanks for the reference.
Interesting. Still, a new species of mosquito hardly
qualifies as a evolutionary leap forward."

     Yes, it is interesting that the biological level
is still evolving.

     Platt said:  "From what I read about black holes
in Wikipedia, they are far from being "beyond all
current understanding." Black holes "are predictions
of Einstein's theory of relativity," and Stephen
Hawkings has come up with a theory explaining them. Of
course, I don't understand anything about black holes,
or cosmology for that matter. But the Wikipedia entry
does shed some doubt on your claims."

     Yes, Einstein's theory predicts them, and Stephen
Hawkings has come up with a theory.  Yet, String
Theorists have theories, too.  Hawkings in his recent
books will state they involve negative and positive
particles that cancel each other out, but these
theories are far from actual observable data or any
data that can conclude these theories.  In physics
now-a-days, the theories are ahead of the curve,
meaning, the theories are being presented as
guidelines to help the physicist to view in a certain
direction as to where the researchers may find data to
further support their ideas.  Their theories are very,
very far from complete, that's why string theorists
state the universe is many sheets side by side and
black holes are these 'sheets of space-time fabric'
that collide with each other creating these things we
call black holes (Einstein by the way states the
universe is curved, similar to a donut shape.).  The
theories are very far and wide in their approach, but
particle acceleratorists and astronomers are working
on ways and predictions that these different theories
promise so we may find out which theories are the most
fruitful, thus, precise.

Thanks, 
SA 

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