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The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Another Confront Equations Ferocious General Math Mechanics Quantum Quantum Mechanics Relativity Work

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What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Beethoven Makes Patterns Spectacular Symphony Wondrous

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Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

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Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

~Brian Greene

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I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Best Feel Gravity Hope Making Mechanics Our Progress Quantum Quantum Mechanics String String Theory Strongly Theory

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By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Dimension Direction Everyday Independent Mean Motion Move Place Principle Second Simply Take Third Which World You

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Beyond Current Day Every Every Day Experiment Hope Like Much Permanently Philosophy Predictions Progress Realm Simply String String Theory Technology Test Theory Toward Very Within Work Working Would

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My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

~Brian Greene

Topics: College Composer Dad Deep Education Finished Formal Formal Education Graduates Had He High High School His Interest Minimal Musician Never Questions Rather School Science Standards Today Universe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 9th, 1963

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