something BIG…

is happening in the world of physics. Later this year, using a 10-20 billion dollar particle accelerator genius Arkani-Hamed and his team of scientists will be able to test the viability of the string theory. The article can be found HERE.

If the string theory is indeed proven to be true then it will force us to look at the world in an entirely new light. Essentially this theory supports two interesting findings for the non-scientific people out there – such as myself.

holographic principle: In a larger sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two dimensional information structure “painted” on a boundary surface, and that the three dimensions we observe are illusory. *source: Wikipedia

theory of everything (TOE): theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena

Perhaps Buddhists, Hindus and psychedelic drug users were right when they said – reality is an “illusion” and all is one. What does this say about consciousness though?

NOTE: Hopefully some physics savvy people can give me some comments, I’m clearly out of my element on this post (hence all the wikipedia).

^ wa-hay, a Buddhist endless knot

“support our troops” – but why?

Why is it that the media and Iraq war protesters never seem to bring up the Iraqi death count? Sure, they talk about the 4,000 dead U.S soldiers but never the 1,000,000+ dead innocent Iraqis (yes, that’s one million). Do most people just not give a flying fuck about the death of a foreigner…or are they just ill informed? We’re not making these people’s lives any better, we’re killing their families for Christ’s sake.

And what’s all this jargon about “supporting the troops”? How can I support something that I’m fundamentally opposed to? And why is it politically incorrect for me to NOT support mass killing?

Sure I feel bad for the naive lower and middle class soldiers that the U.S government sends to do their dirty work. I even have friends in the service, but supporting their career choice (to a much lesser extreme) would be like a “good German” saluting the S.S troops. This blind patriotism B.S and political rhetoric has got to go.

note: I am aware that there are conflicting reports on the death count. Maybe it’s off a few hundred thousand (in either direction). Regardless, it’s still extremely high.