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Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American Mathematician
Born: Aug 26, 1951
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But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. Edward Witten
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I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week. Edward Witten
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It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory. Edward Witten
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Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out. Edward Witten
Physics String String Theory Out Brought More Uncertainty Point Particle Principle Because Quantum Quantum Mechanics Does Spread Replaced Unexpected Which Again Theory Mechanics
As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map. Edward Witten
Time Three Other String Dimensions About Proposals Over Well Been Microscopic Explanation Large Map Now Why
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more. Edward Witten
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As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually. Edward Witten
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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. Edward Witten
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Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see. Edward Witten
Key Extra String Ways Those Dimensions Out See Able Having Directions Particles Vibrate Being Different Different Directions Turns Many Therefore Describe
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested. Edward Witten
Me You String String Theory Tell Some Likely Parts How Tested Happen Might Ask Theory
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. Edward Witten
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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet. Edward Witten
Time Three Extra Dimensions Plus Small Observed Beyond Been Ordinary Spatial Theory Sufficiently Four Interpreted
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. Edward Witten
History Change Long Unlike Possible Classical Long History Quantum Einstein Might Theory Gravity Speculation
On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined. Edward Witten
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