Science Is A Way Of Life. Science

Understanding Requires Insight. Insight Must Be Anchored.

String Theory Is The Most Developed Theory With The Capacity To Unite General Relativity And Quantum Mechanics In A Consistent Manner. I Do Believe The Universe Is Consistent, And Therefore I Do Believe That General Relativity And Quantum Mechanics Should Be Put Together In A Manner That Makes Sense.

When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick The Size To Ensure It Fits. Similarly, We Live In A Universe In Which The Amount Of Dark Energy Fits Our Biological Make-up. If The Amount Of Dark Energy Were Substantially Different From What We've Measured, The Environmental Conditions Would Be Inhospitable To Our Form Of Life.

But If You Think About A Practical Implication Of Enriching Your Life And Giving You A Sense Of Being Part Of A Larger Cosmos And Possibly Being Able To Use This [gravitational Waves] As A Tool In The Future Maybe To Listen Not Just To Black Holes Colliding, But Maybe Listen To The Big Bang Itself, Those Kind Of Applications May Happen In The Not Too Distant Future.

There's A Picture Of My Dorm Room In The College Yearbook As The Most Messy, Most Disgusting Room On The Harvard Campus, Where I Was An Undergraduate.