Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
BRIAN GREENEPhysicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
BRIAN GREENEAnd 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.
BRIAN GREENEAccording to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.
BRIAN GREENEWe do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let’s go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It’s hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.
BRIAN GREENEGravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
BRIAN GREENEThere’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.
BRIAN GREENEHow can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
BRIAN GREENECosmology 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?
BRIAN GREENEI’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENEString theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
BRIAN GREENEArt makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
BRIAN GREENEWhen I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
BRIAN GREENEInstead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
BRIAN GREENEBut 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 GREENEWe’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.
BRIAN GREENEI enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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