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… — 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… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
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
