As you may know, in my own work I often deal with this “baby space elephant problem”. Given that, according to the most recent findings in wombology, baby space is itself only four-dimensional, the recent intrusion of higher-dimensional pachyderms may come as a surprise. Of course, with the demonstrated wombological existence of little princes and little princesses, we should have simply assumed the existence of little palaces, little peasants, and those little pink elephants most frequently associated with drinking too much Belgian beer. If, on the one hoof, the pachyderm is an obsolete zoological category and, on the other, the dual resonance model has replaced the d-brane with the p-brane, is – and here’s my question – the baby space elephant problem susceptible to an instantonic solution?
