In Essence, We String Theorists Have Been

There Are Many Of Us Thinking Of One Version Of Parallel Universe Theory Or Another. If It's All A Lot Of Nonsense, Then It's A Lot Of Wasted Effort Going Into This Far-out Idea. But If This Idea Is Correct, It Is A Fantastic Upheaval In Our Understanding.

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.

For Most People, The Major Hurdle In Grasping Modern Insights Into The Nature Of The Universe Is That These Developments Are Usually Phrased Using Mathematics.

The Universe Is Incredibly Wondrous, Incredibly Beautiful, And It Fills Me With A Sense That There Is Some Underlying Explanation That We Have Yet To Fully Understand. If Someone Wants To Place The Word 'god' On Those Collections Of Words, It's Ok With Me.

In Quantum Mechanics There Is A Causing B. The Equations Do Not Stand Outside That Usual Paradigm Of Physics. The Real Issue Is That The Kinds Of Things You Predict In Quantum Mechanics Are Different From The Kinds Of Things You Predict Using General Relativity. Quantum Mechanics, That Big, New, Spectacular Remarkable Idea Is That You Only Predict Probabilities, The Likelihood Of One Outcome Or Another. That's The New Idea.