I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
BRIAN GREENEThe idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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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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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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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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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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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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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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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.
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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline’s mass into energy, in accord with Einstein’s formula.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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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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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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