Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
BRIAN GREENEI’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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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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Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
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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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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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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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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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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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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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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…things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren’t, we wouldn’t be here to notice.
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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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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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According 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.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality
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