Edward Witten
Edward Witten
Edward Wittenis an American theoretical physicist and professor of mathematical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth26 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
differences knowing
There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true
strong block everyday
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
long might gravity
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
giving shapes different
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
moon nasty newton
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
magic taste mystery
M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
physics strings theory
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.
enter familiar particle spreading
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
achieved basic forces kinds particles unity
Unity of the different forces and particles is achieved because they all come from different kinds of vibrations of the same basic string.