Brian Greene
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greeneis an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds. He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 February 1963
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.