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The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths. Ashoke Sen
Mathematics You Beauty Sit Resources String String Theory About Maths Labs Just Room Your Theory Need
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe. Ashoke Sen
You Science Beauty Interpretation Universe String String Theory More Gives Prove Than Different Theory Radically Imagine
In theoretical physics, one can, in principle, work from anyplace as long as one has a computer and Internet connection. So I do not find any disadvantage of being in Allahabad. Ashoke Sen
Work Physics Internet Long Find Computer Disadvantage Principle Any Being Theoretical Connection
There are no excuses for theoretical physicists not to perform and deliver. Ashoke Sen
Physicists Deliver Perform Excuses Theoretical
My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality. Ashoke Sen
Work String String Theory Known Duality Theory
My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles. Ashoke Sen
Work Black Black Holes Between Particles Holes Connection Elementary
My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles. Ashoke Sen
Work Black Become Stage Consider Those Black Holes Some Properties Indistinguishable Smaller Particles Holes Elementary
Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work. Ashoke Sen
Work Government Good Physics Research Enough Has-Been Never Support Overall Institutional Felt Been Any Requires Theoretical Hardly Funding Need
I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces. Ashoke Sen
Hope Best Matter String String Theory Finding Forces Came Offers Realise Unified Us Theory
The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus. Barry Barish
Black First Our Signal Black Holes About Merging Effect Did Size Holes Measured Apparatus Event Actual Two
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts. Barry Barish
People Seriously Think Distorted All The Facts More Physicists Take Facts Attention Economists Because Makes Scientists Times Get Anything Us Paying Helpful Things Biologists
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. Barry Barish
Physics Waves Detection Triumph Truly Modern Experimental Large-Scale Gravitational
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. Barry Barish
Feelings Recognition About Somewhat Individuals Ambivalent Effort Much Team Team Effort
The 4th Concept is welcomed and encouraged. In the end, it's my hope and belief that the best ideas are what will be used in these detectors. Barry Barish
Hope Best Will Detector Ideas Welcomed Concept Encouraged End In The End Used Belief
The ILC will go forward, but the U.S. will fall behind. Barry Barish
Will Fall Go Behind Forward
The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments. Barry Barish
Science Complex Exciting Most Instruments Requires
If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow. Barry Barish
Will Design Back Drawing Out Somehow Fail Bail Make Go Lot Get Expecting Board Sensitivity Then Theoretically Help Things
It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job. Barry Barish
Job Nutty Kind Seems Something Something New New Up Send
The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking. Barry Barish
Me People Predict Thinking Incredibly Wave Distance Fact Feel Within Makes Sources Optimistic Confident Just Shouting Compared Gravity
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure. Barry Barish
Day You Mistake Physics Hundred Spending Later System Thousand Structure Small Part Particle Checks Checks And Balances Make Balances Go Dollars Lab Fix Committed Just Next Million Million Dollars Here Need
The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises to the government. That is a hard balancing act. Barry Barish
Government Time Problem Promises First Projects Cost Something Schedule Balanced Balancing First Time Scientific Done Being Against Being Done Act Hard Large
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that. Barry Barish
Day Every Day Down Live Every Beach Almost Almost Every Day Like Exercise Lot Up Up And Down Literature Bike Santa Santa Monica Monica Things Plays
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel. Barry Barish
Great Science Ambition Young Could Write Know Really Novel
It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends. Barry Barish
Design Bends Took Machine Could Obvious Demonstrate While Us Actually
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? Brian Greene
Cats Will Universe Suited Our Further Able Somehow Understand Go Brains Than Should Certainly Workings Why Deepest
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. Brian Greene
Science Discipline Correct Previous Generations Ideas Were Subsequent Show
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