One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or in the real world where if two people disagree about something - if people are studying… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and so much of it in what people are doing is completely useless. Nobody kind of in really cares very much. You don't really have kind of right and left and people in ideology coming in because there isn't… — Peter Woit Copy Share
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim of our own success. We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. And it really explains everything that we can observe about and in terms of a very small number of elementary particles and… — Peter Woit Copy Share
One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
The fact that the laws of physics don't change as if you move in time has physical implications that there's this thing called energy… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful.… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
