While watching the DVD, "The Elegant Universe," I developed another model. Okay, don't laugh.
The ground plane of super strings bouncing around was strangely similar to what a graphic of firing synapses in the brain might look like.
Could superstrings actually be synapses firing in the mind of an . . . uh . . . 'intelligent designer?'
Don't shoot!
And is there a possibility that the superstringthingy is the first form of manifest energy in the continuum, different than electricity or gravity, but serving as a matrix which establishes the 'dna' (mechanics) of the micro universe and macro universe?
Unifying all three aspects.
How about we multiply space x energy in motion (matter) x time (distance) to arrive at the total volume of the universe.
In that space has three directions, matter has three dimensions, and time has three aspects (past, present, and future), if you remove one of these nine aspects the quantum universe would disappear and become flat, non-measurable and dimension-less.
Maybe the superstring activity is what starts the ball moving and gives impetus to energy in motion (matter) in three limited dimensions, which fit neatly into a three, unlimited direction spacial environment. The motion itself moves and creates distance. The distance is measurable by the yardstick of time.
(Retreats back into bunker.)
Karl Pibram, in a live talk, once blurted out, "maybe the universe is a hologram". There's an old saying from one of the Indian (subcontinent) religions -- "The universe is the dream of the Gods, and the Gods are the dream of man." ;')
Talk about your odd coincidence... I picked up this special issue of SciAm, which didn't go out to subscribers, as it has this (not online, and I've not read it at all):
http://www.sciam.com/special/toc.cfm?issueid=38&sc=rt_nav_list
Information in the Holographic Universe by Jacob D. Bekenstein
Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram.