Lee Smolin Quotes (8 quotes)

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„How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.“
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„Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.“
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„We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.“
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„If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.“
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„There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.“
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„When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.“
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„Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.“
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„General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.“
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Lee Smolin
Author born: November 30, 1954
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Physicist

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