One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. - Edward Witten
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the … - Edward Witten
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the …
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