"Spreading out the particle into a string is……" — Edward Witten
"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 world where things aren't at all what you're used to."
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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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So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at…
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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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