Stephen Hawking's New Theory Of God..., (I bet you've already guessed what it is...) Options

...is that He/She/It is a superfluous concept, and that the universe creates itself through the course of natural law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_...britain_hawking

Actually, I think Hawking is making progress
He still clings to one side only (the science path), but this is one of the nearest approach he and the rest of the science world have been getting in understanding the system from a sceptic-scientific path

What Hawking presented are simply ancient knowledge that are already known to most esoteric seeker, but rediscovered and renamed using the language of modern science
(Just like how the 4 classical elements are in a way presented nowadays under the modern interpretation of the 4 fundamental force of science)
Its sort of reinventing the wheel, but it doesn't matter, at least Hawking did manage to construct the wheel based on his own interpretation

I'm not fond of Hawking's paranoia and unwillingness to open up for non-science knowledge, but I am grateful for what he's doing, continue your research Hawking, you'll play your role eventually

What Hawking presented are simply ancient knowledge that are already known to most esoteric seeker, but rediscovered and renamed using the language of modern science
(Just like how the 4 classical elements are in a way presented nowadays under the modern interpretation of the 4 fundamental force of science)

Not reaaaaally. The only thing they have in common is that the number is 4 and that they're fundamental. "Forces" is a misnomer, since they're rather something along the lines of interactions and here's all those little particles with strange names I can't remember changing places to facilitate that. Besides, the scientist have yet to observe the connection gravity has with the other three - or even guess what gravity actually is.

On the other hand, the LHC results were not very... conclusive. And by 'not very conclusive' I mean that most of the scientific community went 'wtf is this, I don't'. So there's still a lot of playground.

I'm curious whether any of the more formal practices are quantifiable by math. I mean, there's a lot of involvement from numbers and occasionally formulae, there might be something there to link directly to the discoveries physics makes. Too bad people who study math in-depth rarely have time for anything other than math.

The link is dead, btw D: