Pasti:

I've been out of town so this in response to your response to me. (which is what I dislike most about this forum ... the inability to branch.

We are in complete agreeement ... my commens were not aimed your way. I don't believe any final theory is anywhere in sight until we understand, at a pretty deep level, that which composes the vast majority of the energy and mass in this universe. Trying to understand the universe based on quarks and electrons is like trying to understand the nature of a diamond from its inclusions.

DA Morgan