I am pleased, Gerry, that you have moved away from the practical side, where your transmutation and perpetual motion projects went so disastrously wrong. But you seem to be working on the rather elementary "First String Theory", concerned with the origins of string. I prefer to devote myself to the more subtle "Second String Theory", which, inter alia, postulates that string is only a poor substitute for universal thread. (That, in fact, the thread has been lost is a troublesome, but not disabling factor in my research.)