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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

~Edward Witten

Topics: About Better Black Black Holes Field Holes Insights Lead New Ordinary Quantum Should States Theories Theory Thought Understand Us Wrong

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If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.

~Edward Witten

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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

~Edward Witten

Topics: About Basic Beauty Different Forms Gives Many Music Shapes String Things Which

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So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

~Edward Witten

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Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Direction Enter Everything Familiar Fuzzy Making New New World Out Particle Spreading Step String Things Used Where World You

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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Attempt Deeper Description Elementary Little Loop Nature Particle Point String String Theory Theory Thinking

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Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.

~Edward Witten

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There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

~Edward Witten

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You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

~Edward Witten

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In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

~Edward Witten

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Mathematician

Born: August 26th, 1951

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