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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.

Brian Greene

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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Believe Political Religious
If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.
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Labyrinth Law Twists
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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Moments Thinking Want
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
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
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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Ideas Mind Way
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
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
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
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915,
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Heart Long Support
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Answers Asking May
I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.
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Goal Journey Looks

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