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...around between sets holding out hats and caps for "gold-coin donations" (small-denomination silver change is frowned upon). But what's really special is the diversity of the audience. Expect to see suited office workers and bedraggled backpackers, elderly couples and trendy young things, all enjoying everything from toe-tapping swing to bebop. "Tasmanian people aren't afraid of the elements," says Bosak. Neither will you be, when the snare drums are smacked and the saxophones start to blow...
That is, perhaps, until now. These days physicists are astir with a concept that just may be their ultimate TOE. The theory, developed by Physicists John Schwarz of Caltech and Michael Green of Queen Mary College in London, is known by the unlikely name of superstrings. It explains the forces not as interacting pointlike particles--the conventional approach--but as infinitesimally small, winding, curling, one-dimensional strings. By manipulating the highly intricate mathematics of the string theory, physicists believe they can avoid many of the troubling discrepancies that have dogged all other TOEs. Some scientists are already comparing the idea...
Witten is optimistic that superstrings hold the key to the long-sought TOE, though he and other theorists hesitate to predict whether the remaining problems of the new theory will be solved in five years or 50. "String theory has a very rich and complicated structure that we don't understand much about," says Witten. "But enough beautiful things have been discovered that we're pretty sure we've just found the tip of the iceberg." --By Natalie Angier...
Casey's term, however, will probably be even briefer than Carlin's. He plans to serve only six to nine months, while the governors find a permanent replacement. After experience in railroads, publishing and airlines, Casey said, "I want to dip my toe in every pool. I hope to do the job and move...
...will frequently find himself at odds with Ronald Reagan or congressional Republicans or both over issues like tax reform and the budget. "I've been trying to keep one foot in 1988," he noted as he relaxed on a plane trip from his native Kansas last week. "Or one toe maybe. I may not have a foot...