On this very somber day, I thought it might help people to have something lighthearted to read. Which leads me to the following true story:<\/p>\n
In a conversation with a friend recently, the topic came around to Pastafarianism. Some of you may be familiar with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. A fairly recently recent religion, it has one thing going for it: Its metaphysics is equally as grounded in verifiable evidence as are the metaphysics of all competing major religions.<\/p>\n
But what about physics? Suppose there really is a Flying Spaghetti Monster? Would the existence of His Noodly Appendage be consistent with what we know of the physical laws of our Universe?<\/p>\n
Eventually the conversation got around to various known physical phenomena. There are so many to consider: universal gravitation, the strong and weak nuclear forces, dark matter, black holes, the expansion of the universe.<\/p>\n
And what about string theory? We couldn’t help but see the obvious geometric connection between strings and spaghetti. But how to reconcile such a view with the prevailing hypothesis that of the 9 or 10 spatial dimensions predicted by string theory, 6 or 7 of them actually consist of tiny circular loops?<\/p>\n
We looked at each other in sudden enlightenment — it was so obvious once you saw it: Spaghettios!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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