Brian Greene
Physicist
1963-02-09
Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and author known for his work on string theory and science communication.
Books by Brian Greene
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The Elegant Universe
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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The Hidden Reality
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Quotes by Brian Greene
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
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...quantum mechanics— the physics of our world— requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
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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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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
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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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...quantum mechanics— the physics of our world— requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
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I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.
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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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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.
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The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
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Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
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String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
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I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.
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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.
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The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.
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