Quotes About Physics

Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton said, "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

For principled reasons, Einstein's spacetime cannot be foundational in physics

a scientific experiment to test whether new rules of physics could spark fascinating life forms whose creativity and pleasure was worth the pain they suffered.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.

White contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness. -Theodore Finch

Scientists say that the theory of everything is a technical expression, not a metaphysical one.

Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.

A body will accelerate in proportion to the force acting upon it,

light was both a wave and a particle.

Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Systems can go laterally through space. Others move linearly through time.

Apparently, just adding mobility by itself would add force to my motions without any stability, so I'd basically be blasting myself forward with each step. Hilarious, but impractical.

spacetime model, we might now reasonably ask what is the momentum of the car through time. The answer, fairly obviously, is that

But it is this peculiar behaviour of the gravity spring which enables the universe to have zero total energy.

each elementary particle is paired with a superpartner particle. However, the LHC has not detected any of these predicted

The combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.

the whole block of spacetime from the start of the universe to the end of the universe exists as one unchanging block. This is called the block universe model.

the fifth dimension is proposed to be circular and microscopic.

the addition of a fifth dimension has the effect of introducing the electromagnetic field in four-dimensional spacetime.

instead of time defining the behaviour of a clock, the light clock essentially defines time!

a stationary object moves through time at the speed of light.