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.
BRIAN GREENEYou 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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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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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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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I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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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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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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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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