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• You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
• String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point…
• We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
• I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than…
• M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
• As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we…
• So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or…
• There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology…
• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have…
• One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music…
• It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to…
• In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't…

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