General relativity Quote by Brad S. Gregory Download Open image ““general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,”” — Brad S. Gregory ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare General relativity Physics Quantum mechanics
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature. This is… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Scientists have been trying to unify Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
“Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There must be… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of great progress… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.” — Daniel M. Greenberger Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness,… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Quantum is not only physics. It is a new way of understanding reality.” — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
“Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow him only… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to the meaning-constructing… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.” — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times and cultures… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on what they… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The key point is not, as is commonly but wrongly believed, that the empirical investigation of the natural world made or makes a transcendent… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military power, and… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“The Great Pyramid of Giza was designed in agreement with the Theory of General Relativity.” — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature. This is… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“Banishing zero also solves the infinity problems in general relativity. If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“The subject of this chapter is string theory, and I begin it with these reflections for two reasons. First, because the main thing that… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image