Is this what Stephen Hawking believes?

The alphabet is a conceptual creation of the human mind, whereas physics isn't. Can you prove poetry mathematically? Nope, and its a concept of the mind. Can you prove the existence of the alphabet mathematically? Nope. You can only quantify it mathematically, so I think your analogy there might be a bit too stretched.

No doubt mathematics is the cornerstone of many discoveries in science. The whole Einstein thing... verified by the orbit of Mercury, atomic clocks on the space shuttle, and many other observations. But without those observations, General Relativity while factual would be an idea with nil evidence in my view.

I'm assuming you could only prove a bubble universe mathematically, but then again many things can be proven mathematically if the perimeters and assumptions are wrong.


BTW I've been mulling over the concept of black holes for a while, and since they consist of one point and have an infinite amount of mass [?] within that single point... couldn't they contain a universe within them? Since that's basically the definition [as far as I know] of what a universe would look like from outside a universe. It would be a single point and within that single point contain a heckuvah lot of mass. Also since time breaks down at a black hole....

Just a thought. I've read similar stuff elsewhere.

whomever said that there is no evidence for the membrain theory is absolutely right. Mem theory is unscientific (at the moment anyway) in the sense that it is impossible for it to be proved wrong, ie there is no way of testing it, and in science that is utterly unacceptable. Kind of like a belief in a god who is "beyond our understanding".

Membrain theory is however mathemtically perfect, and if i am correct has high predictive value. Only problem is that it relies on this notion of 12 dimentions and the existance of tiny strings which no body can see. At the moment it is nothing more than mathematical trickery uniting the forces of nature.