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String Quotes by Edward Witten
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
- It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it…
- As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic.…
- Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with…
- One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
- Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle…
- Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More String Quotes
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string… — Helen Keller
- You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with… — Amy Poehler
- You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. — Alan Cohen
- When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one… — Saadi
- The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the… — Lin Yutang
- My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came… — Bob Hope
- The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each… — Lewis Thomas