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The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

~David Gross

Topics: Back Bang Big Big Bang Billions Coming Course Dense Early Enough Go History Hot Hotter Idea Looking Much Period See Smaller The History Of Theory Universe Us Very Where Will Years Years Ago

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The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.

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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

~David Gross

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My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

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Topics: Children Equals Father Greatly Ideas Intellectual Interest Kinds Mother Our Self-Confidence Thus Treated Us

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From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

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Topics: Because Books Depicted History History Books More Most Much Partly Physics Progress Science Than Theoretical True Victorious Written

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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

~David Gross

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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

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Topics: Berkeley Early Experimental Graduate Impotence Period Started Studies Supremacy Theoretical Were 1960S

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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 19th, 1941

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