Reply #184: P.S. To anyone bemoaning the fact that this thread is hanging on

[Mike03]

so long, I think it is utterly fantastic that people are so interested in the new physics and what the answers to our most fundamental and primal questions may be.

Another way of looking at it is that we are paying for this research; we ought to know enough about it to help direct it, and there is a legitimate debate now about whether too much money is going to String and M Theory, and to clutter the physics departments of universities only with String Theorists.