When You Know The Answer You Want,

Physicists Are More Like Avant-garde Composers, Willing To Bend Traditional Rules... Mathematicians Are More Like Classical Composers.

When You Drive Your Car, E = Mc2 Is At Work. As The Engine Burns Gasoline To Produce Energy In The Form Of Motion, It Does So By Converting Some Of The Gasoline's Mass Into Energy, In Accord With Einstein's Formula.

That Is, You Can Have Nothingness, Absolute Nothingness For Maybe A Tiny Fraction Of A Second, If A Second Can Be Defined In That Arena, But Then It Falls Apart Into A Something And An Anti-something. And That Something Is Then What We Call The Universe. But Can We Really Understand That Or Put Rigorous Mathematics Or Testable Experiments Against That? Not Yet. So One Of The Big Holy Grail Of Physics Is To Understand Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.

The Main Challenge That Television Presents Is That I Have A Tendency To Say Things With A Great Deal Of Precision And Accuracy. Often A Description Of That Sort, Which Will Work In A Book Because People Can Read It Slowly - They Can Turn The Pages Back And So On - Doesn't Really Work On Tv Because It Interrupts The Flow Of The Moving Image.

We're On This Planet For The Briefest Of Moments In Cosmic Terms, And I Want To Spend That Time Thinking About What I Consider The Deepest Questions.