[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
Such a good idea & actual program! Also a great way to handle writing to youngsters who still have a limited vocabulary... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't > really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is > hard to look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits if we try to do this > we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to > fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but > long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see > them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing > looks just like a point. > > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes > things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us in space, near by, all of it can be > understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > Fabulous. Really Works good into TM-eese too: Book V: 1806 - 07 Dumbed down: "Allow me to ask," he said, "are you a Meditator?" "Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the transcendental meditators," said the stranger, looking deeper and deeper into the non-meditator's eyes. "And in their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you." "I am afraid," said the non-meditator, smiling, and wavering between the confidence the personality of the transcendental meditator inspired in him and his own habit of ridiculing the meditator beliefs--"I am afraid I am very far from understanding--how am I to put it?--I am afraid my way of looking at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one another." http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ Really cuts to the chase. -Buck > > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't > really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is > hard to look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits if we try to do this > we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to > fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but > long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see > them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing > looks just like a point. > > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes > things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us in space, near by, all of it can be > understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
the awakened dreams of sleeping From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 2:05 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > > > Enlightenment explained in the Up-Goer Five text editor: > > > > Real seeing is a hard idea to understand. Real stuff instead > > of not real stuff as feeling and thinking. Inside and outside > > a person, as an idea is not real. They are one thing. Or > > perhaps a not thing, but something like a thing. They are > > together. They are quiet and still. They are not really two > > things, like two different ideas. If you are still enough when > > not asleep and your eyes are open, you will see and feel this. > > Focus and not focus, one after the other. Doing and not doing > > one after the other. Not being still and being still, one > > after the other. Then at some time the two, as you had thought > > before, will become one and you can not tell them from each > > other. Nothing else will be because only the real is left over. > > It was always there like this. You forgot because you thought > > too much, and thought what you thought was real. > > Excellent! I was hoping someone would catch the wave > of how fun this concept is. That's pretty much the > same thing I was trying to say with: > > how to wake up > is not the question > the game is more > how to stop dreaming > that you are asleep Ah, but yours is more *succinct*. I mean, Ah, but yours is shorter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > > > Enlightenment explained in the Up-Goer Five text editor: > > > > Real seeing is a hard idea to understand. Real stuff instead > > of not real stuff as feeling and thinking. Inside and outside > > a person, as an idea is not real. They are one thing. Or > > perhaps a not thing, but something like a thing. They are > > together. They are quiet and still. They are not really two > > things, like two different ideas. If you are still enough when > > not asleep and your eyes are open, you will see and feel this. > > Focus and not focus, one after the other. Doing and not doing > > one after the other. Not being still and being still, one > > after the other. Then at some time the two, as you had thought > > before, will become one and you can not tell them from each > > other. Nothing else will be because only the real is left over. > > It was always there like this. You forgot because you thought > > too much, and thought what you thought was real. > > Excellent! I was hoping someone would catch the wave > of how fun this concept is. That's pretty much the > same thing I was trying to say with: > > how to wake up > is not the question > the game is more > how to stop dreaming > that you are asleep Ah, but yours is more *succinct*. I mean, Ah, but yours is shorter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > Enlightenment explained in the Up-Goer Five text editor: > > Real seeing is a hard idea to understand. Real stuff instead > of not real stuff as feeling and thinking. Inside and outside > a person, as an idea is not real. They are one thing. Or > perhaps a not thing, but something like a thing. They are > together. They are quiet and still. They are not really two > things, like two different ideas. If you are still enough when > not asleep and your eyes are open, you will see and feel this. > Focus and not focus, one after the other. Doing and not doing > one after the other. Not being still and being still, one > after the other. Then at some time the two, as you had thought > before, will become one and you can not tell them from each > other. Nothing else will be because only the real is left over. > It was always there like this. You forgot because you thought > too much, and thought what you thought was real. Excellent! I was hoping someone would catch the wave of how fun this concept is. That's pretty much the same thing I was trying to say with: how to wake up is not the question the game is more how to stop dreaming that you are asleep
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
Enlightenment explained in the Up-Goer Five text editor: Real seeing is a hard idea to understand. Real stuff instead of not real stuff as feeling and thinking. Inside and outside a person, as an idea is not real. They are one thing. Or perhaps a not thing, but something like a thing. They are together. They are quiet and still. They are not really two things, like two different ideas. If you are still enough when not asleep and your eyes are open, you will see and feel this. Focus and not focus, one after the other. Doing and not doing one after the other. Not being still and being still, one after the other. Then at some time the two, as you had thought before, will become one and you can not tell them from each other. Nothing else will be because only the real is left over. It was always there like this. You forgot because you thought too much, and thought what you thought was real.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 02/01/2013 09:44 AM, authfriend wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > (snip) > >> The problem on Windoze was it's lame path names which uses forward > >> slashes > > Errr, I think you meant to write "backslashes": > > > > / = forward slash \ = backslash > > > > > > > > > > which need to be handled specially because a forward slash > >> in ASCII also denotes a special character such as a carriage return. > >> Linux and Unix use forward slashes in paths. > > > > Yup, I did mean to type "backslashes" but my fingers did otherwise. > Thanks! Haven't had my Americano yet. :-D > So, it's all about Java.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
On 02/01/2013 09:44 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > (snip) >> The problem on Windoze was it's lame path names which uses forward >> slashes > Errr, I think you meant to write "backslashes": > > / = forward slash \ = backslash > > > > > which need to be handled specially because a forward slash >> in ASCII also denotes a special character such as a carriage return. >> Linux and Unix use forward slashes in paths. > Yup, I did mean to type "backslashes" but my fingers did otherwise. Thanks! Haven't had my Americano yet. :-D
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: (snip) > The problem on Windoze was it's lame path names which uses forward > slashes Errr, I think you meant to write "backslashes": / = forward slash \ = backslash which need to be handled specially because a forward slash > in ASCII also denotes a special character such as a carriage return. > Linux and Unix use forward slashes in paths.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
Your problem was that you are running Windoze. On Linux it's all much simpler and Linux text editors already have syntax highlighting built in. That's what "Notepad2" is about and the XAMPP site recommended it. If you want more then you use a programmer's IDE like Eclipse. And of course the Windoze install of Python came with IDLE for editing. The problem on Windoze was it's lame path names which uses forward slashes which need to be handled specially because a forward slash in ASCII also denotes a special character such as a carriage return. Linux and Unix use forward slashes in paths. Also there was also bug with PHP, fixed in Linux but not Windoze were the mail routines needed a "@" added to work. Programming languages already have fewer words anyway. Should we all be talking in if then else statements? :-D On 02/01/2013 06:22 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > Maybe if Bhairitu wrote those PHP and Python scripts with it, I wouldn't have > so much trouble getting them to work. The best suggestion he could come up > with is to use Notepad2: > > http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: >> It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're >> trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most >> common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were >> writing this using the editor). >> >> http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? >> >> >> To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to >> believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand >> it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string >> theory... :-) >> >> "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even >> smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made >> of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the >> smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't >> really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is >> hard to look at things that are so small. >> It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, >> but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down — or actually >> everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does >> this is hard to make out of little point-bits — if we try to do this >> we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to >> fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but >> long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see >> them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing >> looks just like a point. >> >> But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes >> things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact >> all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of >> wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea >> explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some >> little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that >> everything around us — in space, near by, all of it — can be >> understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >> > > To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers to meruD
Maybe they scoot into another dimension? From: merudanda To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 8:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers LOL When we wake up does everyone and everything in our dreams disappear forever and ever- do they no longer exist or could they exist..? "Full of air, with no real there there..." --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: >SNIP > afternoon blonde > beautiful face, beautiful mind > cool crazy conversation > then boyfriend appears > brought down > but only for a moment > because it was > a damned nice conversation > and now still is > > > Up-Goer Question: > How does one > repeat the hundred hundred > names of God > in only > ten hundred words? > > > how to wake up > is not the question > the game is more > how to stop dreaming > that you are asleep > > > to question > is to wake up > to answer > is to dream > > > There once was a lady from somewhere > Who had herself a beautiful pair > But much further up > She was only an A-cup > Full of air, with no real there there > > SNIP
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
This is my very favorite part to question is to wake up to answer is to dream z But oy, I just got subtext of what I wrote. Am I really so stewpid? Scary! Also can't help but notice that it's not only vomen who are obsessed with size of opposite gender's paraphernalia. Is that a good word or what?! From: turquoiseb To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 7:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > So, the point is, It's all wrapped too tight. Until a Long thingie makes > fun thingies happen. Thank you. Got it in One (-: Thanks for getting the fun of it, despite the slight jab, meant not personally as a jab at anyone in particular here, just the TM/New Age tendency for people to think that they understand quantum physics based on what they've been told by people dumbing it down to the max. This seemed to be a linguistic tool to help determine what "the max" really is. :-) But as for the Up-Goer Five Editor, I have been having SO much fun with it, sitting in this pub on a rainy afternoon. I think it's a marvelous concept -- trying to express complicated things in the most simple language possible. I've been amusing myself the last five minutes by trying to use it to write Bad Poetry. These are what I came up with so far: afternoon blonde beautiful face, beautiful mind cool crazy conversation then boyfriend appears brought down but only for a moment because it was a damned nice conversation and now still is Up-Goer Question: How does one repeat the hundred hundred names of God in only ten hundred words? how to wake up is not the question the game is more how to stop dreaming that you are asleep to question is to wake up to answer is to dream There once was a lady from somewhere Who had herself a beautiful pair But much further up She was only an A-cup Full of air, with no real there there > > From: turquoiseb > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 3:19 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] The text editor designed for writing to TMers > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't really > know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is hard to > look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down -- or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits -- if we try to do this we > get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to fix > it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but long > things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see them > because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing looks just like a point. > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes things > fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us -- in space, near by, all of it -- can be understood > from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
LOL When we wake up does everyone and everything in our dreams disappear forever and ever- do they no longer exist or could they exist..? "Full of air, with no real there there..." [:D] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: >SNIP > afternoon blonde > beautiful face, beautiful mind > cool crazy conversation > then boyfriend appears > brought down > but only for a moment > because it was > a damned nice conversation > and now still is > > > Up-Goer Question: > How does one > repeat the hundred hundred > names of God > in only > ten hundred words? > > > how to wake up > is not the question > the game is more > how to stop dreaming > that you are asleep > > > to question > is to wake up > to answer > is to dream > > > There once was a lady from somewhere > Who had herself a beautiful pair > But much further up > She was only an A-cup > Full of air, with no real there there > > SNIP
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
Maybe if Bhairitu wrote those PHP and Python scripts with it, I wouldn't have so much trouble getting them to work. The best suggestion he could come up with is to use Notepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't > really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is > hard to look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits if we try to do this > we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to > fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but > long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see > them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing > looks just like a point. > > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes > things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us in space, near by, all of it can be > understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
turquoiseb: > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > So, I wonder what the text editor would do with "TMer", a word you totally made up. Go figure. You idiot - almost all of the TMer scriptures come from Sanskrit Sutras, which are alreaady truncated down to their essence. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > So, the point is, It's all wrapped too tight. Until a Long thingie makes > fun thingies happen. Thank you. Got it in One (-: Thanks for getting the fun of it, despite the slight jab, meant not personally as a jab at anyone in particular here, just the TM/New Age tendency for people to think that they understand quantum physics based on what they've been told by people dumbing it down to the max. This seemed to be a linguistic tool to help determine what "the max" really is. :-) But as for the Up-Goer Five Editor, I have been having SO much fun with it, sitting in this pub on a rainy afternoon. I think it's a marvelous concept -- trying to express complicated things in the most simple language possible. I've been amusing myself the last five minutes by trying to use it to write Bad Poetry. These are what I came up with so far: afternoon blonde beautiful face, beautiful mind cool crazy conversation then boyfriend appears brought down but only for a moment because it was a damned nice conversation and now still is Up-Goer Question: How does one repeat the hundred hundred names of God in only ten hundred words? how to wake up is not the question the game is more how to stop dreaming that you are asleep to question is to wake up to answer is to dream There once was a lady from somewhere Who had herself a beautiful pair But much further up She was only an A-cup Full of air, with no real there there > > From: turquoiseb > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 3:19 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] The text editor designed for writing to TMers > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't really > know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is hard to > look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down -- or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits -- if we try to do this we > get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to fix > it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but long > things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see them > because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing looks just like a point. > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes things > fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us -- in space, near by, all of it -- can be understood > from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
[FairfieldLife] Re: The text editor designed for writing to TMers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor). Cool, but what I need is one that does it the other way round > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't > really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is > hard to look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits if we try to do this > we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to > fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but > long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see > them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing > looks just like a point. > > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes > things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us in space, near by, all of it can be > understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
