Events Quote by Taner Edis Download Open image “To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.” — Taner Edis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Modern Modern physics Physics Possibility Religion
“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein” — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“They, however, never occur in practice, only in the mind of the physicist.” — Manjit Kumar Copy Share Image
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image