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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Attaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
- Classical Composers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
- Heavens
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
- Nov 07, 2020
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
- Big Bang
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- Nov 07, 2020
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
- Observe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.
- Finite Number
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
- Distances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
- General Relativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Letters
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.
- General Relativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
- Ease
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.
- Grasping
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black Holes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
- Dorm
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
- Enjoy Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
- Black Holes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020