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I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

~Edward Witten

Topics: About Badminton Care Movies Once Once A Week Play Tend Week

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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Basic Beyond Blocks Building Building Blocks Equipment Everyday Everyday Life Experience Explore Forces Gravity Life Lots Ordinary Our Perhaps Physics Strong Take Weak

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Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Any Clear End Math Physics Regardless Supposed Up

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But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Anyone Beauty Century Einstein Equations Example Experienced For Example Harmony Inner Just Learned Music Real Work 20Th Century

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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Been Beyond Dimensions Extra Four Interpreted Observed Ordinary Plus Small Spatial Sufficiently Theory Three Time

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If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Answer Figure Out Question Researcher Trying Well You

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As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

~Edward Witten

Topics: As Far As Atoms Concerned Dimensions Everyday Everyday Life Extra Far Individually Just Life Many Perceived See Tiny Together Very

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As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

~Edward Witten

Topics: About Been Dimensions Explanation Large Map Now Other Over Proposals String Three Time Well Why

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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Before Century Describing Developed Elegant Equations Even Greatest Most Nature Out Physics Really Simplicity String String Theory Subtle Theory Turned Very Work 20Th Century

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Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Able Being Describe Different Different Directions Dimensions Directions Extra Having Key Many Out Particles See String Therefore Those Turns Ways

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Mathematician

Born: August 26th, 1951

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