Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, ‘Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.’ And she turned to me and said, ‘Daddy, universe or multiverse?’
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It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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We’re on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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