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Article #6248BRIAN GREENE ASKS, ALBERT EINSTEIN ANSWERS
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:51
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:51
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http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~motl/universe/ Sycophant: "Welcome to the webpage of a Brian Greene's bestseller "The Elegant Universe"....String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the unified FIELD theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years......String theory, as the author vividly describes, reveals a vision of the universe that is sending shock waves through the world of physics. Thrilling and revolutionary ideas such as new dimensions hidden within the fabric of space, black holes transmuting into elementary particles, rips and punctures in the SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM...." http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/einstein07/einstein07_index.html Brian Greene: "So the question I have is, we, many of us, are working on Einstein's legacy in a sense, which is trying to find the unified theory that he looked for such a long time and never found, and we've been pursuing an approach called super string theory for many years now. And it is a completely theoretical undertaking. It is completely mathematical. It has yet to make contact with experimental data. I would like to ask Einstein what he would think of this approach to unification. Does he see the same kind of beauty, the same kind of elegance, the same kind of powerful incisive ideas in this framework to give him the confidence that he had in the general theory of relativity?" http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/pdf/files/975547d7-2d00-433a-b7e3-4a09145525ca.pdf Albert Einstein (1954): "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures. Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary physics." Pentcho Valev
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