My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
From Brian Greene
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.
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.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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