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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

Brian Greene

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.
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Bread Extra Space Universe
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity.
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Ideas Issues Real
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
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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Holy Rather Something Testable Understand
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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Adventure Stories Years
I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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Children Eye Light
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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Age Diamond Sky Space
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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Development Modern People
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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Mind Reality Tuition
…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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Notice Universe Way
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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Believe Political Religious
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That’s the new idea.
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Another Predict Probabilities The Likelihood
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
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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Moments Thinking Want

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

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