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I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

Brian Greene

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
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
To tell you the truth, I’ve never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it’s hard to say.
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Claim Dimensions Three
$Brian Greene Quote - That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe.$

That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe.
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Fall Grail Holy Tiny
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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Development Modern People
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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Daughter Love More Motivation
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
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Bread Extra Space Universe
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
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
I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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Journey Long Thinking
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
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
We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let’s go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It’s hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.
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Dimensions Ideas Imagine
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
…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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