I agree with you that the "gods sun had to die" part is a little too jarring. Just got back from El Greco and my latent catholic genes are showing. Truth be told I just liked the pun so much I had too use it at least once!
I do not know about the string stuff as far as where the suns got their energy. My understanding is that string theory is unproveable as is deals with items that are so small, and I want to deal with proveable stuff, to stay away from the truly mystical stuff, mystical equalling unproveable to me! lol
Wassail is a kind of caroling, but with drinking! It is also a drink served to those who are wassailing. Think of ot as a pub crawl, but with great food and drink in every house (not pub), and amatuer theater and dancing along the way.
There is also generally a stop at an apple tree where various pagan type rituals are performed, mainly placing toast in the tree to lure back the birds of spring.
But mainly its about drinking, singing, dancing and playacting as far as I am concerned!
I actually do not know the theory behind the formation of the stars! I never took astronomy, and modern pyhsics is next semester! lol Not that I could not read a book or 2! I mean I guess the "energy" just "coalesed" right? Or no? Don't feel you have to give a lecture, but if you have a decent website you like, that would be cool. Probably any old astronomy website, or typing in "how do stars form" would do the trick!
Hmm...Point particles can be tricky to find. My advice: Solve the time-dependent wave equation and this should at least give you a narrowed down field of probable location. That is, unless your subset isn't in Hilbert space. Then you're still screwed.
