Antony Garrett Lisi
Antony Garrett Lisi
Antony Garrett Lisi, known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position. He is a strong proponent of balance in life, in his case between scientific research and enjoyment of the outdoors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth24 January 1968
CountryUnited States of America
guy hard next share twenty works
If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.
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I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
gotten happy taking talk visit
I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
abandon large line science toss
As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.
math doe world
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
lasts frontiers
Science is our last and greatest frontier.
father thinking path
My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.
playing-outside geek scientist
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
found theory gravity
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
beautiful simple make-sense
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.
fall mind theory
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
fun surfing planets
Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.
guy academia physics
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
people want good-things
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.