Mike,

Thanks! You reply sure is fun. I'm tumblediving with the links, alone,
as well as with a couple of colleagues. May take awhile.

> There are some popular books on this now, (Woit, Smolin),
> unfortunately they spend too much time “unselling superstrings”,
> instead of showing why the basic assumptions could be incorrect, or
> why other directions might be just as interesting.

Everything is possible, and not everything is as possible/interesting as
everything else?

> Of course, this is way off topic… but at least it seems to be a topic
> we are interested… and let’s face it, we are not taking any valuable
> bandwidth from this group!!!

:-)))) Doesn't seem so.
Perhaps metaphors are just best enjoyed alone (taking bandwidth elsewhere)?

Greetings,

Nynke