Cesium, Iodine From The Chernobyl Reactor Accident

...the Laws Of Physics, Carefully Constructed After Thousands Of Years Of Experimentation, Are Nothing But The Laws Of Harmony One Can Write Down For Strings And Membranes. The Laws Of Chemistry Are The Melodies That One Can Play On These Strings. The Universe Is A Symphony Of Strings. And The "mind Of God," Which Einstein Wrote Eloquently About, Is Cosmic Music Resonating Throughout Hyperspace.

The Europeans And The Americans Are Not Throwing $10 Billion Down This Gigantic Tube For Nothing. We're Exploring The Very Forefront Of Physics And Cosmology With The Large Hadron Collider Because We Want To Have A Window On Creation, We Want To Recreate A Tiny Piece Of Genesis To Unlock Some Of The Greatest Secrets Of The Universe.

Science Fiction Without The Science Just Becomes, You Know, Sword And Sorcery, Basically Stories About Heroism And Not Much More.

I Vowed To Myself That When I Grew Up And Became A Theoretical Physicist, In Addition To Doing Research, I Would Write Books That I Would Have Liked To Have Read As A Child. So Whenever I Write, I Imagine Myself, As A Youth, Reading My Books, Being Thrilled By The Incredible Advances Being Made In Physics And Science.

Modern Thinking Is That Time Did Not Start With The Big Bang, And That There Was A Multiverse Even Before The Big Bang. In The Inflation Theory, And In String Theory, There Were Universes Before Our Big Bang, And That Big Bangs Are Happening All The Time. Universes Are Formed When Bubbles Collide Or Fission Into Smaller Bubles.