String Theory Quotes:

In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

- Michio Kaku

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

topic: Play, Symphony, Mind, String Theory, Resonating

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Nature, Vibrations, Energy, String Theory, Wiggling

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Music, Light, Essence, Matter And Energy, Time And Space

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.

- Brian Greene

source: "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

topic: Reality, Musical, Would Be, String Theory, Musical Notes

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

- Michio Kaku

source: "A universe in a nutshell: The physics of everything, with Michio Kaku". bigthink.com.

topic: Simple, Ideas, Two, String Theory, Simple Ideas

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

- Brian Greene

topic: Space, Would Be, Bread, String Theory, Multiverse

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.

- Brian Greene

topic: Law, Labyrinth, Twists, Vibrate, String Theory

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

- Lee Smolin

source: Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Guitar, Words Of Wisdom, Ordinary, String Theory, Guitar Strings

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Ocean, Space, Depth, String Theory, Width

String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

- Fabiola Gianotti

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Want, Dimensions, Seven, String Theory

The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in some sense, the lowest octave of a vibrating string.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Dark, Matter, Vibrations, String Theory, Dark Matter

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

- Brian Greene

topic: Ideas, Energy, Molecules, String Theory

I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just dont believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.

- Edward Witten

source: "Physics' sharpest mind since Einstein" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. July 5, 2005.

topic: Real, Nice, Believe, String Theory, Nice Things

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

- Brian Greene

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Curves, String Theory, Warp

Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Character, Reality, Thinking, String Theory

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Science, Economy, Mechanic, String Theory, Quantum Mechanics

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

- Edward Witten

source: "Viewpoints on String Theory: Edward Witten". "NOVA" interview, www.pbs.org. July 2003.

topic: Nature, Simplicity, Physics, String Theory

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

- Edward Witten

topic: Thinking, Littles, Description, String Theory

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

- Philip Warren Anderson

source: "God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap". www.nytimes.com. January 4, 2005.

topic: Fashion, Years, Adequate, String Theory, Pursued

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Japan, Might, Able, String Theory

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

- Roger Penrose

source: "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

topic: String Theory

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

- Nathan Seiberg

topic: Science, Progress, Facts, String Theory

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

- Edward Witten

topic: Physics, Century, Strings, String Theory

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

- Lee Smolin

source: Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Believe, Might, Possibility, String Theory, Arcane

One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even pin it down and say this is exactly what it predicts, so lets go out and test it. So, it's not even capable of being wrong, or being falsified, or being showed to be wrong.

- Peter Woit

topic: Letting Go, Kind, Problem, String Theory

Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Apples, Fire, Upset, String Theory, Calculations

I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

- Brian Greene

topic: Journey, Thinking, Long, String Theory, Winding Road

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

- Brian Greene

topic: Would Be, Strings, Theory, String Theory, Theorists

String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

- Brian Greene

topic: Believe, Together, Mechanic, String Theory, General Relativity

Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

- Edward Witten

topic: Strong, Cousin, Progress, String Theory

Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Thinking, Bangs, Modern, String Theory, Fission

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

- Brian Greene

topic: Stars, Reflection, Majestic, Swirls, String Theory

Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke ***** and this is my modest attempt to help them.

- Lubos Motl

source: "Marijuana creates holes in lungs". motls.blogspot.ru. June 04, 2007.

topic: Humble, Marijuana, Wings, String Theory

I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

- Michio Kaku

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

topic: Jobs, Dark, Space, String Theory, Dark Matter

One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.

- RZA

topic: Baby, Reality, Two, String Theory, Different Dimensions

Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question.

- Michio Kaku

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

topic: Yield, Mind, Black, Entanglement, Mind Boggling

I'm a fan of the simulation theory. I tend to think that most of our existence, if not all of it, is part of a hologram created by some type of other life form, or some type of other artificial intelligence. Now, it may be impossible for us to ever know that, but a bunch of recent studies in string theory physics have proved that.

- Zoltan Istvan

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Thinking, Impossible, Study, String Theory

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

- Rob Bell

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Size, Looks, Strings, String Theory

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Confused, Thinking, Albums, String Theory, Unexplained

The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

- Michio Kaku

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

topic: Ideas, Two, Consciousness, String Theory

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Real, Believe, Conspiracy, String Theory, Conspiracy Theory

I had two passions when I was a child. First was to learn about Einstein's theory and help to complete his dream of a unified theory of everything. That's my day job. I work in something called string theory. I'm one of the founders of the subject. We hope to complete Einstein's dream of a theory of everything.

- Michio Kaku

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Jobs, Children, String Theory, Day Jobs

The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Thinking, Gone Away, Broken, String Theory, Reunited

General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that's been the big challenge and that's why we have been excited about string theory, as it's one of the only approaches that can put it together.

- Brian Greene

source: "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

topic: Challenges, Together, Excited, String Theory, General Relativity

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- Lupe Fiasco

source: Song: Hurts Me Soul

topic: Army, Men, Car, Hypnotic, String Theory

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

- Edward Witten

topic: Might, Theory, Strings, String Theory

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

- Brian Greene

topic: Emotional, Yesterday, Today, String Theory, Emotional Investment

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

- Edward Witten

topic: Important, Predictions, Strings, String Theory

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

- Edward Witten

topic: Principles, Doe, Unexpected, String Theory, Uncertainty Principle

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

- Sam Harris

topic: Ted Bundy, Strings, Theory, String Theory