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There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

Brian Greene

But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.
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Holy Rather Something Testable Understand
I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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Every Day Mesh Strings
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
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Challenges Space Thinking
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Enjoy Not Interested Reading
And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that’s been the big challenge and that’s why we have been excited about string theory, as it’s one of the only approaches that can put it together.
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About Big General Place String Universe
If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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God OK Out Someone Word
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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Long Respectable Theory
Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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Cosmos Eternity Instead Quieter
Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That’s the new idea.
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Another Predict Probabilities The Likelihood
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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Age Dream Light
I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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Children Eye Light
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Mathematics Science
…things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren’t, we wouldn’t be here to notice.
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Notice Universe Way

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