Gravity Is Matter’s Sugar Daddy.

Einstein Comes Along And Says, Space And Time Can Warp And Curve, That's What Gravity Is. Now String Theory Comes Along And Says, Yes, Gravity, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism - All Together In One Package, But Only If The Universe Has More Dimensions Than The Ones That We See.

There's A Picture Of My Dorm Room In The College Yearbook As The Most Messy, Most Disgusting Room On The Harvard Campus, Where I Was An Undergraduate.

That Is, You Can Have Nothingness, Absolute Nothingness For Maybe A Tiny Fraction Of A Second, If A Second Can Be Defined In That Arena, But Then It Falls Apart Into A Something And An Anti-something. And That Something Is Then What We Call The Universe. But Can We Really Understand That Or Put Rigorous Mathematics Or Testable Experiments Against That? Not Yet. So One Of The Big Holy Grail Of Physics Is To Understand Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.

To Tell You The Truth, I've Never Met Anybody Who Can Envision More Than Three Dimensions. There Are Some Who Claim They Can, And Maybe They Can; It's Hard To Say.

The Fact That I Don't Have Any Particular Need For Religion Doesn't Mean That I Have A Need To Cast Religion Aside The Way Some Of My Colleagues Do.