Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
BRIAN GREENEScience 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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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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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I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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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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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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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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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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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