A Hydrogen Bomb, For Me, Was Puny

Once Confined To Fantasy And Science Fiction, Time Travel Is Now Simply An Engineering Problem.

There's The Caveman In Us. The Caveman In You Says, "i Want Direct Contact. I Don't Want A Picture." The Caveman In Our Body Says Once In A While, We Have To Go Outside. We Have To Meet Real People, Talk To Real People, And Do Real Things.

They Basically Ask Their Engineers To Volunteer Some Probability Figures, Then They Take The Average. This Is Not Science. This Is Voodoo.

We Can Summarize Electricity, Magnetism And Gravity Into Equations One Inch Long, And That's The Power Of Field Theory. And So I Said To Myself: I Will Create A Field Theory Of Strings. And When I Did It One Day, It Was Incredible, Realizing That On A Sheet Of Paper I Can Write Down An Equation Which Summarized Almost All Physical Knowledge.

I'm A Physicist, And We Have Something Called Moore's Law, Which Says Computer Power Doubles Every 18 Months. So Every Christmas, We More Or Less Assume That Our Toys And Appliances Are More Or Less Twice As Powerful As The Previous Christmas.