"The standard model, which represents the highest version of quantum theory, is supremely ugly. It has 36 quarks and anti-quarks, 19 arbitrary parameters, 8 gluons, 3 weak bosons, 3 carbon copies of quarks and leptons, and so on. It's like taping together an aardvark, a platypus, and a whale, and calling it the product of millions of years of evolution on Earth. It's a theory that only a mother can love!" Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist
From the page Brain power: This representation shows the connectivity of the 10,000 neurons and 30 million connections that make up a single neocortical column. (The different colors correspond to different levels of electrical activity.)
Dec 5, 2007 9:17am
