There's A Picture Of My Dorm Room

The Number Of E-mails And Letters That I Get From Choreographers, From Sculptors, From Composers Who Are Being Inspired By Science Is Huge.

Before The Discovery Of Quantum Mechanics, The Framework Of Physics Was This: If You Tell Me How Things Are Now, I Can Then Use The Laws Of Physics To Calculate, And Hence Predict, How Things Will Be Later.

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.

Many Different Planets Are Many Different Distances From Their Host Star; We Find Ourselves At This Distance Because If We Were Closer Or Farther Away, The Temperature Would Be Hotter Or Colder, Eliminating Liquid Water, An Essential Ingredient For Our Survival.

So: If You Buy The Notion That Reality Consists Of The Things In Your Freeze-frame Mental Image Right Now, And If You Agree That Your Now Is No More Valid Than The Now Of Someone Located Far Away In Space Who Can Move Freely, Then Reality Encompasses All Of The Events In Spacetime.