As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are lik… - Edward Witten
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are lik…
- Edward Witten
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more. - Edward Witten
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out ever… - Edward Witten
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out ever…
You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. - Edward Witten
You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… - Edward Witten
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…
M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste - Edward Witten
M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th… - Edward Witten
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th…
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousn… - Edward Witten
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousn…
As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Pr… - Edward Witten
As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Pr…
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