Scientific Revolutions, Almost By Definition, Defy Common

For Relaxation, I Like To Figure Skate. Being On The Ice And Spinning And Jumping, I Feel Very Close To Nature. In Particular, I Feel Very Close To Newton's Laws Of Motion. On The Ice, You Can Experience Newton's Laws Of Motion In Their Purest, Most Elegant Form.

Science Is About Principles. It's About Concepts. It's Not About Memorizing The Parts Of A Flower. It Helps To Know Some Of These Things, But If That's All You Do That's Not Science, Science Is About Principles And Concepts.

What I Do For Living, Working On Something Called String Theory Which We Think May Answer The Fundamental Question: Are There Other Universes? Can You Go Through A Black Hole? Can You Warp The Fabric Of Space And Time And Meet Your Mother Before You Were Born? These Are All Questions That In Principle String Theory Should Be Able To Answer.

Technologies That May Be Realized In Centuries Or Millennium Include: Warp Drive, Traveling Faster Than The Speed Of Light, Parallel Universes; Are There Other Parallel Dimensions And Parallel Realities? Time Travel That We Mentioned And Going To The Stars.

Chances Are, The Aliens Will Not Want To Land On Our Backyard, Or Even The White House Lawn, With Their Flying Saucers. They May Have Tiny, Robotic Self-replicating Probes Which Can Reach Near Light Speed And Can Proliferate Around The Galaxy. So Instead Of The Enterprise And Huge Star Ships, The Aliens Might Actually Send Tiny Probes To Explore The Universe. One Might Land On Our Lawn And We Won't Even Know.