Montahue: "Good afternoon everyone. Today's guest, Kent Welling, is here because his writings caught my attention. - So if you tuned in for your daily requirement of talk show passion babble I think today's show will not be what you expected (spoken with humor.) Wait! Wait, wait. Before you start channel surfing, let me entice those of you who are truly curious and inspired by the natural world around you. I have a very interesting treat for you. On today's show we have a gentleman who is widely regarded, by both the scientific and religious community, to be a prophet, a seer, a mystic, or whatever else you may want to call a Divinely Inspired individual."

Montahue breaks eye contact with the studio audience. A smirk passes across his face. When he looks over at Kent, his expression quickly changes as if he is suddenly at a loss for words. - It is one of Montahue's trademarks, that he is always the showman, pretender, actor; and none too good at any of these. - Kent looks back with a mischievously knowing grin. Montahue smiles in return, only then to return his attention to the papers in his hands.

While looking over these papers his expression changes into one of amused respect. Shaking his head in the negative, he chuckles before he returns his attention to the camera. He bows his head at the home audience, then looks back to his guest and continues:

Montahue: "Where in all this (gesturing to the papers in his hands) would you like to start?"

Kent sits up; pushing his hips against the back of his chair and leans slightly forward. He speaks animatedly: "Did you ever think anyone could be so blinded as to not see the forest for the leaves?"

Montahue: "Isn't it: `forest for the trees?'"

Kent: "It was before particle, and then string physics became fads."

At that statement a loud harrumph was heard off screen. A seemingly startled Montahue looks to his left to pinpoint the source. He quickly pushes his chair back, stands, and then walk-trots to the source of the sound, filling the dead air space with a side comment: "Looks like we’re starting off early today."

Montahue: "What was that about?"

First speaker: (Pale faced, mop headed, dishwater blond with myopic glasses: Nerd) "Most people don't understand physics. But to call the study a fad, blinded by specific attention, is quite a misunderstood representation."

Kent: "How so?"

Nerd: "The state-of-the-art has accepted the fact that particles / strings are extremely interactive. We have grown to understand that they should not be seen as separable. The leaves describe the trees that make up the forest."

Kent: "No, to a physicist the ‘leaves’ are nothing more than representations of quantifiable thought constructs. It is their mission to quantify things. It is their math that tells them to do this. And that is the format they must address to not only communicate and prove their ideas but to formulate them as well. This is their very first assumed expectation with their studies, that everything can be quantified or judged by a quantified experiment. It is a powerful assumption because it has enabled them to create amazing tools. It also helped them to draw a picture in their minds about the workings of an atom. But it is an assumption that does not explain very much at all.

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