No-one expects ...

I followed a van into work today. It had the word "Slimming" in large letters down one side and the company name - "Health Rack". Of course putting someone on the rack would make them slimmer, though I think the side-effects might be a bit overwhelming. I imagine Michael Palin in a red cape and wide-brimmed hat leaning over the poor victim menacingly (welll as menacingly as Michael Palin can) and claiming that they were fat and that they should admit it so they could all go home. There is a Solicitor in my town called Black Norman who I suspect is advocate to a few local pirates ( and we do have a few). I suppose that Black Norman can't help it because of course they are the names of the two main partners but "Health Rack"? No-one expects that.

What if there were two bands - one called just "Archimedes" and one called "Archimedes Aunt". Discuss the expected music of each (3 marks) with special reference to the imaginary band which John Peel announces before his show. I was convinced that Crispy Ambulance were one of these imaginary bands but as you can see from the link, they actually existed. Unless of course, someone has invented all the Internet references to them like the idea that all the Dinosaur fossils were placed in the ground as a test of faith in the age of the world being only 6000 years. On the same subject, what about the light from stars which are more than 6000 light years away. Was this placed on its journey at the time of creation again as a test of faith. The argument is that the Universe was created as a Mature universe. I would counter with Doctor Invinciblis again. Don't posit plurality where a single entity will suffice. The Universe is amazing as it is whether it has a creator or not and to introduce plainly counter-intuitive ideas ("Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"?) detracts from the extra-ordinaryness of all that detail. Anyway, all that recent stuff about string theory and 11 dimensions has introduced a great window for any creator. It appears that the Big Bang was NOT that start of all time and space which pushes back the question "What was before the Big Bang? - Old answer - nothing - no time - no space. The Big Bang still happened but all the time and space which we can see in our universe is the result of a collisions between two Membranes (or 'Branes in the parlance) which exist in higher dimensions to which we do not have access. The lumpiness of our Universe which gives rise to the clumps of matter which we see is the result of ripples in the 'Branes. This introduces the idea of who created the 'Branes? It apparently even gives rise to the possibility of creating a completely new and separate Universe in the Laboratory. I suppose, expanding the ideas of Rudy Rucker, it promotes the possibility of an extra-dimensional link between physical space - Souls and Telepathy even. Do we cross the boundaries of our Universe which we cannot cross physically, by being able to imagine (and define mathematically) the realms outside those boundaries? I suppose it is a case of God, not the Devil is in the Detail. Chaos Ex Machina!

Anyway my answer to the above more simple question is that "Archimedes" would be a sort of alternative Jazz from the seventies a bit like Steve Davis' favourite group " Magma " and "Archimedes Aunt" would be a late eighties - early nineties indie Rock band - Mark and Lard would play them but Peel might think them a little too light