I Was Holding [my Four-year-old Daughter] And

Physicists Are More Like Avant-garde Composers, Willing To Bend Traditional Rules... Mathematicians Are More Like Classical Composers.

Science Is The Process That Takes Us From Confusion To Understanding.

...quantum Mechanics—the Physics Of Our World—requires That You Hold Such Pedestrian Complaints In Abeyance.

Relativity Challenges Your Basic Intuitions That You've Built Up From Everyday Experience. It Says Your Experience Of Time Is Not What You Think It Is, That Time Is Malleable. Your Experience Of Space Is Not What You Think It Is; It Can Stretch And Shrink.

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.