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VAMatt said:

I think this one of those "the grass is always greener on the other side" things.  When you feel like you don't have enough time for yourself, you envy the guy that says that's all he has.  For him, he probably wishes he had a wife to spend his tons of free time with.  

I'm married, and I too feel like my time is being eaten away by another person.  My wife just left the country for 2.5 weeks, and I am very much enjoying this time to myself.  But, if she called me and said she's decided to stay away for six months, I'd probably feel pretty bad about that. 

I often wonder if it is possible to find a perfect balance, long term.  There have been times in my life when I felt like my life was reasonably well balanced in this regard.  Like, when I had a serious, long term girlfriend that I didn't live with.  But, it has been a long time since I was in one of those phases.  At this point, I have a baby on the way.  So, I'm figuring my chances of finding that perfect balance are pretty much zero now.  Or, maybe having a kid will change my definition of "perfect balance".

Well, my wife called me and said she's decided to stay away... for good, so yeah I've seen better times.

Your baby is a great opportunity for a new balance, you'll basically get a pass to buy all the games and toys you want, and you'll have a great partner to play with, it can be very enjoyable.

Now on topic, my questions to OP:

1) Is scale gravity a viable substitute for string theory, given that the latter is nothing but an unfalsifiable fantasy?

2) Is there another phenomenon besides neutrinoless double beta decay to determine if neutrinos are Majorana particles and at the same time determine if they are Dirac particles if the test comes out negative for the Majorana hypothesis?

3) If neutrinos turn out to be Dirac particles, is there a way to explain electric charge quantization in satisfactory way?

4) Is there a way I can succesfully integrate the four-momenta of the mass eigen-states that make up a superposed wavefunction effectively resolving the contribution to cross sections and decay rates due to the interference between such eigen-states?