Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
BRIAN GREENEI 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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…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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In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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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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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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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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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 boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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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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