physics 8
- String theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.
- Dark matter need not be one simple thing: a fraction of it may radiate its own dark light and collapse into a thin disk.
Lisa Randall
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.
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What Lisa Randall says most about
energy 2
- The surprise is not that most of the universe is invisible to us, but that the matter we can see makes up as large a fraction as it does.
- Physicists actively want the standard model to break down, because only the deviations can tell us what underlies it.
humility 2
- String theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.
- There is probably no bottom level of reality we will ever reach; physics will keep penetrating layers without ever arriving at the last one.