Before The Discovery Of Quantum Mechanics, The

I Was Holding [my Four-year-old Daughter] And I Said, 'sophia, I Love You More Than Anything In The Universe.' And She Turned To Me And Said, 'daddy, Universe Or Multiverse?'

Most People Don’t Question The Practice Of Eating Meat. Many Of These People Care About Animals And The Environment, Some Deeply. But For Some Reason-force Of Habit, Cultural Norms, Resistance To Change-there Is A Fundamental Disconnect Whereby These Feelings Don’t Translate Into Changes Of Behavior.

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In My Own Research When I'm Working With Equations, I Never Feel Like I Really Understand What I'm Doing If I'm Solely Relying On The Mathematics For My Understanding. I Need To Have A Visual Picture In My Mind. I'm Constantly Translating From The Math To Some Intuitive Mind's-eye Picture.

General Relativity Is In The Old Newtonian Framework Where You Predict What Will Happen, Not The Probability Of What Will Happen. And Putting Together The Probabilities Of Quantum Mechanics With The Certainty Of General Relativity, That's Been The Big Challenge And That's Why We Have Been Excited About String Theory, As It's One Of The Only Approaches That Can Put It Together.