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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. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Back Because Convert Cosmos Energy Enormous Essentially Eternity Even Ever Expansion Faint Fall Far Future Hardly Instead Light Matter Mist Particles Quieter Returned Space Spread Through Will

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I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'

~Brian Greene

Topics: Appropriate Because Cannot Concept Find God Interesting Physicist Response Test Think Very I Think

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Campus College Disgusting Dorm Harvard Messy Most Picture Room Undergraduate Where Yearbook

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Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Again Centuries Emerged Following Leads Mathematics Monumental Out Over Science Set Time

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Any Atoms Central Else Energy Ever Examine Find First Idea Little Matter Molecules More Particles Piece Probe Quite Smaller Something Something Else Straightforward String String Theory Theory Tiny You

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Accommodate Certainly Demands Dimensions Extra Only Really Requires String String Theory Theory

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If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Cake Icing Out Right Tasty Theory Thick Tremendously Turns Will

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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Could Doorstep Explore Finally Precision Put Theory Things Unified Universe Us Vast Would

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Because Beyond Big Detection Dimensions Escape Eyes Only Others Our See Small Those

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Einstein Find First Goal Himself Journey Least Look Part Really Say Sentence Theory Unified Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 9th, 1963

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