I Had Two Passions When I Was

In Some Sense, Gravity Does Not Exist; What Moves The Planets And The Stars Is The Distortion Of Space And Time.

... Each Of The 24 Modes In The Ramanujan Function Corresponds To A Physical Vibration Of A String. Whenever The String Executes Its Complex Motions In Space-time By Splitting And Recombining, A Large Number Of Highly Sophisticated Mathematical Identities Must Be Satisfied. These Are Precisely The Mathematical Identities Discovered By Ramanujan.

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.

What Is The Universe? The Universe Is A Symphony Of Vibrating Strings...we Are Nothing But Melodies. We Are Nothing But Cosmic Music Played Out On Vibrating Strings And Membranes.

Our Best Shot At Finding Life In Our Solar System Might Be To Look At The Moons Of Jupiter And Saturn. Mars, Increasingly, Looks Like A Dead Planet. But The Oceans Beneath The Ice Cover Of The Moons Of Jupiter And Saturn May Actually Have More Liquid Water Than The Oceans Of Earth.