Amos - I just saw your answering post now; been away from the 'Cat a bit - but belatedly, Thank you! More food for thought. / See, I'm grappling with cosmologies which suggest that matter doesn't matter, because we're really just vibrations emanating from teenytinylittle strings, and/or holographic projections on a brane. Me, I don't have the branes for it. My son gave me Hawking's latest book for Christmas so it's all his fault, the punk. My kid's I mean, not Hawking's. On the other hand, for a physically-helpless genius that Hawking is pretty damn funny, especilly when he gets going on the Russians and the French. But I digress.

LH, d'y'know, I think some of these far-out Theory-of-Everything physicists are riding their fookin' equations right around to yer very point of view? / I think maybe I'm getting there too. Even if I am a P-brane.