In terms of explaining the latest advances of physics, Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" is irreproachable: easy to read, rigorous and as elegant as the model of Universe he describes so well. I hadn't studied physics since 1974 and the amount of knowledge reading his book allowed me to acquire with little effort was fabulous.<br>"The Elegant Universe" would certainly deserve a SIX STAR rate were it not for a fact that is neither his nor his book's fault.<br>When Greene takes for granted that reality as perceived by man is 3D, he also, unconsciously perhaps, ignores exactly the small but significant percentage of  human beings that, throughout the centuries, not to say millennia, have repeatedly reported just the opposite, that is, that reality is more than the 3D experience our material senses can perceive.<br>Such a materialistic and unquestionably biased approach, not questioning the strong reasons science once had to adopt it, is responsible today for theoretical physicists feeling themselves as lonely adventurers climbing nature's knowledge peak, having no one higher up to suggest the correct direction to take.<br>Experimental physicists are standing at a quite lower position in the peak climbing path than they could be today due to the limitations of material instrumentation available for probing nature's intimate reality. Assuming everything is material, they simply dwell in the same biased position  a Neanderthal man would be when faced with a computer running a sophisticated software. The Neanderthal man would be tempted to believe the software had been produced by the computer, the same way scientists are led to assume that the mind is produced by the brain. Such a biased belief deprives modern science from using the most sophisticated and powerful probing instrument ever available to man, which is man's own mind.<br>Mystics, prophets, mediums, channelers, no matter how one calls them, are just human beings whose mind has the capacity to travel in other dimensions. Despite their lack of scientific understanding, they are surely higher up on nature's knowledge peak climbing path than theoretical physicists are. No matter that they may not be solidly grounded on the rock of the peak, but rather floating somewhere around. The fact that cannot be ignored is that they are the only living beings physicists can count upon to guide their climbing quest for truth.<br>It is an absolute shame and an incredible loss for science that so few scientists perceive such an absurd sate of things.