Of course, human consciousness seems to carry with it strong impulse to ideological belief, which may in fact be the impetus to symbolic representation.
Mathematics is certainly more apt to provide useful description of extra-dimensional "realities" BUT we're still discovering mis- and reinterpretations of the particle trails of atom-smashers. Not to mention the new stuff.
Your links are excellent, thank you.
Seems were all sitting around waiting for proof of the Higgs Boson, right? LOL
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/06/05/universe.origins.reut/ Thank you so very much for your insight, the link and the encouragements! Indeed, many of us are anxiously awaiting the Higgs boson/field. What I find most surprising is that the scientists were surprised that they didn't find it in the previous test. And they aren't terribly confident it'll be found at Fermilab. Sigh...
IMHO, like astronomy, in quantum physics - the information is accumulating at an accelerated rate and is highly statistical. With all that is going on, I can't help but wonder what radical theories may be coming down the road.