I've been involved in Micronesia for almost 40 years, and I've been adopted here to the point of having a clan assignment. I understand you perfectly. On the site I said that if scientists weren't from Missouri, we wouldn't be scientists. We have to have a practical, show me attitude, and be constantly looking for that new angle.

I am really impressed by the power of GR logic and how it relates to observed reality. Its metaphysical implications are almost as rigid.

The probabilities of Quantum Mechanics have clouded the issue for some people because most people who haven't studied QM and the laws of probability, see it as a chancy theory. (Even Einstein was inclined to that view!) They fail to realize the fearsome determinism implicit in chance when vast sample sizes are evaluated and how this determinism relates to a geometric GR concept. If the QM model didn't give solid answers it wouldn't be useful!

There are so many things. To my mind the SRT, GR concept is well enough verified, that it deserved to be described in 7-D, which is where it matches the mathematical model best. I told Stephen, Dr. Kiehn and others (and they understand this well of course), that I couldn't guarantee all the technical details, but Ned Wright encouraged me to give it a try, and Dr. Kiehn gave me many practical suggestions.

One of my problems was nailing down the jargon of 15 or twenty different disciplines! Mike Feltz was very understanding of that, and I had a lot of assistance from many people!

To me the most stunning implication of GR is that the world of forces and motion we experience is definitely not the way the universe really is cosmologically...and we can and have proved it. There is no such thing in cosmology as being a little bit incorrect. The first shocker of course was the 43 Arc Second Precessional shift of Mercury, but there are many other confirmations...and to many many decimal places.

I think we are very close to a dual universe confirmation, and in 10 years, I'm willing to wager we will speak of dual universes as we talk about singularity today. Regardless, the next 10 years will be very exciting in science!

Lets stay in touch...Best Wishes, Sam Cox