But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future.
BRIAN GREENEThe 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
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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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You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
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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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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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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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Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
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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 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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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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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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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
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The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it’s correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.
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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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