We've Done A Miserable Job Of Preparing

Well, Congress Gave Us A Billion Dollars To Dig The Hole, This Gigantic Hole. Bigger, Much Bigger Than The Hole In Geneva, Switzerland. Then They Canceled The Machine And Gave Us A Second Billion Dollars To Fill Up The Hole. Two Billion Dollars To Dig A Hole And Fill It Up. That Is The Wisdom Of The United States Congress And It Really Makes You Wonder: Is There Intelligent Life On The Earth? Certainly Not In The United States Congress.

I Had Two Passions When I Was A Child. First Was To Learn About Einstein's Theory And Help To Complete His Dream Of A Unified Theory Of Everything. That's My Day Job. I Work In Something Called String Theory. I'm One Of The Founders Of The Subject. We Hope To Complete Einstein's Dream Of A Theory Of Everything.

The Next Big Accelerator Might Be The Ilc In Japan, A Linear Collider Which Might Be Able To Probe The Boundaries Of String Theory. So We Physicists Have To Learn How To Engage The Public So That Taxpayers Money Is Used To Explore The Nature Of The Universe.

You Know; When I Look At The Night Sky And I See This Enormous Splendor Of Stars And Galaxies, I Sometimes Ask The Question, Well How Many Worlds Are We Talking About? Well Do The Math, There Are About 100 Billion Galaxies That Are In The Visible Universe And Each Galaxy In Turn Contains About 100 Billion Stars, You Multiply And You Get About Ten Billion Trillion Stars. Well I Think It Is The Height Of Arrogance To Believe That We Are Alone In The Universe, My Attitude Is That The Universe Is Teaming, Teaming With Different Kinds Of Life Forms

Science Is The Engine Of Prosperity. But You'd Never Know It, Listening To Some Of The Politicians. They're Lawyers And Businessmen, Not Scientists. Lawyers And Businessmen Massage Wealth; They Don't Create It.