string/M theory

I guess it sort of depends on how you define matter, since matter=energy, according to relativity. But what I've read about string theory doesn't really say much about what, exactly the strings are - so it's hard to say.

The "strings" can manifest themselves in several forms;

1. the "G" string, appears to have no purpose except maybe for flossing out dingleberries.

2. string cheese, supposedly digestible form of string.

3. silly string, highly unstable and flammable.

god, i am a dork

Ahhh... the ol' is question.

Gotta love those silly semantic traps of Aristotelian logic.

I recommend abandoning Aristotle.

[Edited on Jul 14, 2004 by Lemonkid]

A ≠ A

I can never finish it. But it's fantastic.

Yup... amazing, amazingly dense book. If you want something a bit less intense, but in the same vein, pick up Godel's Proof, by Nagel and Newman... Hofstadter (author of G.E.B.) wrote the foreword to it. Not a terribly tough read, compared to Godel, Escher, Bach. But then again, Gravity's Rainbow is light reading comparatively...