moonriver

I think Human need much more intellectual alien friends to share their knowledge about how the universe started with us. It is so lonely to live in this universe.

Kung Fu is just a part of the chinese martial art. In china, martial art has developed to an extremely complicated level, even the hand shape can consist of dozens of different type to cause different damages. Nobody knows, i believe, how many kinds of martial arts exist in china. As for japenese karate, ninjutsu etc, they were all derived from chinese martial art with japenese own development. From chinese Tang Dynasty( about 1700 ys ago), japenese has imported a huge amount of chinese cultrue into their own, like chinese character, music, art of tea, and martial art etc. Do you know the city of kyoto (japenese ancient capital) is an exact copy of the capital city of then Tang Dynasty, Chang An. That is why people always say japenese culture is a little brother of chinese culture.

i dont know where you get this idea from. As i know, there are some incident in chinese rural area that some pregnant women want abortion after finding their babys gender due to the chinese male-favor tradition.

Go check out the book The Elegant Universe. you will have a total idea about what is string theory, theory of everything.

Of course the universe 's got boundry, just you aren't able to see it due to the current technical limitation. "Spreading" is a proper word to describe it with.

No mass, and it can vibrate in total 10 spacial dimensions.

ft=mv2-mv1

IMHO, i never consider Hawking a top scientist, but a pop science writer. BTW, The Elegant Universe is the best theoretical physics book i ever see.