[X] My Assistant

[dvandorn]

As we all know, Isaac Newton was the first person to codify and organize a coherent description of mass and forces and how they interact. This system is called Newtonian physics.

Then Einstein came along, and taught us all that Newtonian physics only accurately predicts behaviors in unaccelerated states. His new system of rules for accelerated systems, defining both special and general relativity, is now called Einsteinian physics.

I guess the next major breakthrough, as small a chink in the wall as it may be, has been Steven Hawking's work to try and reconcile Einsteinian physics to quantum physics.

Will the new physics that comes out of all this be called Hawkingian physics?

If so -- how would you pronounce that?

-the other Doug