In The Beginning God Said, The Four-dimensional

Scientists Willing To Risk Their Reputations On Higher Dimensions Soon Found Themselves Ridiculed By The Scientific Community. Higher-dimensional Space Became The Last Refuge For Mystics, Cranks, And Charlatans.

What Differentiates Human From Lower-animal Consciousness Is Time. You Can't Explain The Concept Of "tomorrow" To Your Dog. Our Consciousness Is Dominated By Time - We're Constantly Running Simulations Of The Future. Our Brain Is A Prediction Machine. The Hallmark Of Intelligence, Indeed Of Genius, Is The Number And Complexity Of The Feedback Loops We Use In Predicting The Future.

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.

It Would Be Great If We Had Our Own Personal Force Fields. Just Imagine Creating Your Own Architecture In Your Room. Buildings. You Wouldn't Have To Spend All That Time Saving Your Money For That Second House. You'd Simply Push A Button And Have As Many Houses As You Want.

A Hydrogen Bomb, For Me, Was Puny Compared To The Big Bang - The Creation Of The Universe. That's What I Really Wanted To Work On - The Nature Of The Universe Itself, And That's What I Do For A Living.