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?
BRIAN GREENEOur eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing.
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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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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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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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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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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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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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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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To tell you the truth, I’ve never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it’s hard to say.
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Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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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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