Membrane Collision? Big Bang Initiator?

     So I was reading one of my astronomy books and it was just going through a brief synopsis on  a proposed theory that our four dimensional spacetime was created due to two five dimensional   membranes colliding.  I had read about the "Brane Theory" awhile back, but this was the first time I read that the branes involved were each five dimensional.

     My first thought was, "Why five?"  Hmmm, sounds like wifi LOL.  No, that wasn't it, of course,  No, my thought immediately were the five dimensions are used to fit into M-theory, which is the collaboration of the previously separated five string theory models.   M-theory requires 10 dimensions of space and one of time. Which the proposed number of dimensions in the branes implies that the branes do not have a time dimension, which is hard to imagine.  But you know what John from the Beatles says, "It's easy if you try."  Anyway, sure enough I read a bit online and the data I read said that the "M" in M-theory was believed to stand for membrane theory, but Witten has never confirmed why he called it M-theory.

     This made me feel rather silly, realizing that the theory, M-theory, allowed for strings and membranes all this time, and I had to figure it out this way!  Anyway, one more thought on why is was dubbed "M-theory".  Witten's theory showed that all proposed versions of string theory were really the same one.  The letter "M" has five points but they are all part of the same letter.  That was my guess for a possible reasoning in the name.  Anyway, I really need to try to sleep, now.  Good night!

Motion Sickness Upgrade

Motion Sickness is a song I have heard pretty frequently at my job.  It is played several times a day at my retail job.  Most of the songs played are hardly an upgrade from elevator music as far as I am concerned but one of the songs I actually liked, liked not loved.

It actually has lyrics.  Songs stopped having lyrics in the 90s.  Now they have one word, phrase, or sometimes a whole sentence that is repeated over and over again, usually to music created by some sort of computer program.  I am not anti-technology.  I love it, but I am anti-anti-creativity and anti-anti-imagination.

Anyway, I had to look up the song and the lyrics since I had no idea what it was.  I think the band was called Hot Chips or Hit Chips or something like that.  Please don't sue me.  I have no money.  Anyway, the lyrics were a disappointment, as I appreciated the lyrics that I thought I heard better.

The version I heard really "struck a chord" with me.  LOL  Anyway, they reminded me of my late brother and me growing up, especially in the second verse, so without further ado, here are the lyrics to the second verse as I believed they were meant to be:

'Remember when we both found out the world is hell, the world is hell?
'Remember when we both found out the world is hell, the world is hell?
Everything lost, everything lost of my dreams.
Everything lost, everything lost of my dreams.
I am only reaching out for you,
I am only reaching out to you.'

Thoughts on Love and Life

I don't know how most people experience love and life.  Mine seems to have been somewhat unconventional.  When I was younger, I lived for love and love met everything.  Now there is no love left, but here I continue to live on.  When I was young, I did not think I would live to be an adult, and I didn't really.  I no longer resemble anything of my former self.  I died awhile back.  Now I avoid humanity like the plague (and they pretty much are).  I know, I know, so pessimistic, Debbie Downer.  For you young people that is a reference to Satuday Night Live (Old School).

Anyway, as I was saying love ruled my life and now has no place in it.  What does it mean to really be alive?  I don't think I qualify, and it is hard to care one way or the other.