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“Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg likens this multiple universe theory to radio. All around you, there are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However, if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies have decohered and are no longer in phase with each other. Each station has a different energy, a different frequency. As a result, your radio can only be turned to one broadcast at a time.Likewise, in our universe we are "tuned" into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot "tune into" them. Although these worlds are very much alike, each has a different energy. And because each world consists of trillions upon trillions of atoms, this means that the energy difference can be quite large. Since the frequency of these waves is proportional to their energy (by Planck's law), this means that the waves of each world vibrate at different frequencies and cannot interact anymore. For all intents and purposes, the waves of these various worlds do not interact or influence each other.”
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.”
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.”
― Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
― Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
“By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.”
― Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
― Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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