Assessing Existence While Failing To Embrace The

Over The Centuries, Monumental Upheavals In Science Have Emerged Time And Again From Following The Leads Set Out By Mathematics.

But, As Einstein Once Said, “for We Convinced Physicists, The Distinction Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Persistent.”5

I Think It's Too Fast To Say That All Sci-fi Ultimately Winds Up Having Some Place In Science. On The Other Hand, Imaginative Minds Working Outside Of Science As Storytellers Certainly Have Come Upon Ideas That, With The Passing Decades, Have Either Materialized Of Come Close To Materializing.

General Relativity Is In The Old Newtonian Framework Where You Predict What Will Happen, Not The Probability Of What Will Happen. And Putting Together The Probabilities Of Quantum Mechanics With The Certainty Of General Relativity, That's Been The Big Challenge And That's Why We Have Been Excited About String Theory, As It's One Of The Only Approaches That Can Put It Together.

My Best Teachers Were Not The Ones Who Knew All The Answers, But Those Who Were Deeply Excited By Questions They Couldn't Answer.