Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
BRIAN GREENEAssessing 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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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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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There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
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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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So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars… it just feels like there’s a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we’re familiar with.
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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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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
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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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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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