John D. Barrow

“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name…

— John D. Barrow

“Topology is that branch of mathematics which is interested in the forms of things aside from their size and shape, Two things…

— John D. Barrow

“It is generally agreed by modern cosmologist that we have established the general framework of how the universe behaved from when it…

— John D. Barrow

“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an…

— John D. Barrow

“The success of discovering a thermodynamic principle associated with the gravitational field of a black hole has led to a speculation that…

— John D. Barrow

“A true standard requires us to find some way of defining what we mean by one unit of time which is the…

— John D. Barrow

“A star is a body that is massive enough for the gravitational comptession at its centre to produce a temperature great enough…

— John D. Barrow

“If the Universe possesses intrinsically random elements in their make up, inherited from its quantum origins or from random symmetry-breakings during its…

— John D. Barrow

“Curiously, Schrodinger's equation describes the change in the probability that we will obtain a particular result if we conduct an experiment. It…

— John D. Barrow

“There are many other innovations in Boscovich's detailed treatise, but we are interested here in drawing attention to just this one point:…

— John D. Barrow

“Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relativity in 1915, we find that Einstein's…

— John D. Barrow

“When one looks at the numbers, the situation becomes even more perplexing. The effect of lambda grows steadily with respect to the…

— John D. Barrow

“For many years, cosmologists have sought, with little success, some fundamental principle which would reveal why the cosmological constant mist be zero.…

— John D. Barrow

“If water is bombarded with intense sound waves, under the right conditions, then air bubbles can form which quickly contract and then…

— John D. Barrow

“Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of eternal forms. He proceeds…

— John D. Barrow

“In a Newtonian world, all physical quantities, like energy and spin, can take on any values whatsoever. They range over the entire…

— John D. Barrow

“Complexity is a delicate business. Chemical and molecular bonds require a particular range of temperature in which to operate. Liquid water exists…

— John D. Barrow

“String theory promises to take a further step beyond that taken by Einstein's picture of force subsumed within curved space and time…

— John D. Barrow

“Fitzgerald had noticed that if this sqrt(I-v^2/c^2) correction factor was applied to the analysis of Michelson's apparatus fixed on the earth's surface…

— John D. Barrow

“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science…

— John D. Barrow

“The phenomenon of symmetry breaking reveals something deeply significant about the workings of the universe. The laws of Nature are unerringly symmetrical.…

— John D. Barrow

“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure…

— John D. Barrow

“Each of the most basic physical laws that we know of corresponds to some invariance, which in turn is equivalent to a…

— John D. Barrow

“Besides the traditional questions of where or what the Platonic world of perfect mathematical blueprints actually is, this view moves us towards…

— John D. Barrow

“Bindu is used to describe the most insignificant geometrical object, a single point or a circle shrunk down to its centre where…

— John D. Barrow

“Carbon originates in the Universe via a two-step process from nuclei of helium, or alpha particles as we usually call them. Two…

— John D. Barrow

“The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences…

— John D. Barrow

“The inverse-square law singles out no particular scale of length as special and has an infinite range. To explain objects of particular…

— John D. Barrow

“This 'Planck length' is the only quantity with the dimensions of a length that can be built from the three mist fundamental…

— John D. Barrow