Chances Are, When We Meet Intelligent Life

When We're Born, We Want To Know Why The Stars Shine. We Want To Know Why The Sun Rises.

The Human Mind Has A Desire To Know Its Place In The Universe And The Role We Play In The Tapestry Of Life. This Is Actually Hardwired Into Our Brains, The Desire The Know Our Relationship To The Universe. This Was Good For Our Evolution, Since It Enabled Us To See Our Relationship To Others And To Nature Which Was Good For Our Survival. And It Is Also What Drives Our Curiosity To Understand The Universe.

Once Again, My Colleague Stephen Hawking Has Upset The Apple Cart. The Event Horizon Surrounding A Black Hole Was Once Though To Be An Imaginary Sphere. But Recent Theories Indicate That It May Actually Be Physical, Maybe Even A Sphere Of Fire. But I Don't Trust Any Of These Calculations Until We Have A Full-blown String Theory Calculation, Since Einstein's Theory By Itself Is Incomplete.

I Would Hope That The Publicity Around The Higgs Boson Would Increase The Public Awareness Of Physics And Cosmology.

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