-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was reading Hawking's _Black Holes & Baby Universes_ and an interesting question struck me: If a Grand Unified Theory exists, would it not prove P=NP to be true? My Armchair Cosmologist's (TM) reasoning goes something like this: If a GUT exists, and that GUT is proven to be true (making it the Grand Unified Law, I suppose), any behaviour we believe to be non-deterministic really isn't: it obeys the GUL. So P=NP must be true, since NP is an artifact our pre-GUL way of looking at things. Am I way off base here? Can anyone with more knowledge in this area than I tell me if I'm right, wrong, or somewhere in between? Many thanks, Ken ============================================================================= Ken Kirksey kkirksey@world.std.com Mac Guru & Developer - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harassment is a power issue, and power is neither male nor female. Whoever is behind the desk has the opportunity to abuse power, and women will take advantage as often as men. - Michael Crichton (in _Disclosure_) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLisd3+sZNYlu+zuBAQFIewP+Pailgh2SFHki+eakhVU9wRCX4kvTXGt/ A2cL/GdIAWkMTPDwOIjzG6MusXcyNUTnTIiAp+Ctzti2xa8F2hsyXU5yd8RQh6aE ukmmKGvzYBocmiPV2ekl5aSlubV8+0BG4bLDDY5IKOwy1P+oXhY9539YumXuVq+D xKp/7PdRBcU= =Gx6j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----