Panta rei conditio sine qua non est Dead matter makes quantum jumps; the living and quantum-gravitational matter is smarter.   I bet $100 that the Higgs will not be discovered. Instead, the number of quarks will jump to 8 and more, in a Fibonacci sequence. Thursday, January 9, 2003, 15:56:04 GMT We don't have any theory of gravity incorporating "the other sign of mass", nor a cosmological theory of dynamic dark energy, and the omnipresent smooth "dark" stuff is completely out of site. We still don't know how to "cancel" the mechanism producing inertia. As of today, our efforts to achieve propellantless propulsion are far less successful than the dream of Otto Lilienthal (Fliegeberg, 16 August 1894).   Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you can't, you are right, says Henry Ford. Hence the only way to predict the future is to create it. Dimi Chakalov Al. Stambolijski Blvd 28 BG-1000 Sofia 22 December 2023, 08:28 GMT ---- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll