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
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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.