"So when you ask me how string theory……" — Edward Witten
"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 the theory that are likely to be tested."
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31 Quotes by Edward Witten
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You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a…
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We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
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I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it…
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M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
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As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms…
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There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for…
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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or…
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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which…
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It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm…
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In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something…
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If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're…
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We…
— Victor J. Stenger
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There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work,…
— Unknown Author
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My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many…
— Simon van der Meer
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Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators
— Saul Perlmutter
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The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can…
— Dave Barry
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I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said,…
— Neal Stephenson
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These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to…
— Deborah Harkness
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Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research…
— Steven Weinberg
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