The River Of Time May Fork Into

All Kids Are Born Geniuses, But Are Crushed By Society.

Language And Emotions Are Too Easily Misread. For Example, Laughing Can Mean Many Things: Laughing With You Or At You. Does That Laugh Reflect Joy, Anger, Or That S/he's About To Fire You? Too Many Jobs Require Complex Feelings, Pattern Recognition, Common Sense, And The Human Touch.

Science Fiction Without The Science Just Becomes, You Know, Sword And Sorcery, Basically Stories About Heroism And Not Much More.

What I Do For Living, Working On Something Called String Theory Which We Think May Answer The Fundamental Question: Are There Other Universes? Can You Go Through A Black Hole? Can You Warp The Fabric Of Space And Time And Meet Your Mother Before You Were Born? These Are All Questions That In Principle String Theory Should Be Able To Answer.

We Can Summarize Electricity, Magnetism And Gravity Into Equations One Inch Long, And That's The Power Of Field Theory. And So I Said To Myself: I Will Create A Field Theory Of Strings. And When I Did It One Day, It Was Incredible, Realizing That On A Sheet Of Paper I Can Write Down An Equation Which Summarized Almost All Physical Knowledge.