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  1. Brian Greene _ The Hidden Reality: Parallel

    they are beyond each other's cosmic horizon.
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  2. Brian Greene _ The Hidden Reality: Parallel

    Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury's orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton's mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury's trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.
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  3. Brian Greene

    Science is a way of life

  4. Brian Greene _ The Hidden Reality: Parallel

    In this language, we've found that the cosmic cheese acquires more and more holes because quantum processes knock the inflaton's value downward at a random assortment of locations. At the same time, the cheesy parts stretch ever larger because they're subject to inflationary expansion driven by the high inflaton field value they harbor. Taken together, the two processes yield an ever-expanding block of cosmic cheese riddled with an ever-growing number of holes. In the more standard language of cosmology, each hole is called a bubble universe {or a pocket universe}.
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  5. Brian Greene _ The Fabric of the Cosmos:

    Quantum mechanics challenges this view by revealing, at least in certain circumstances, a capacity to transcend space; long-range quantum connections can bypass spatial separation. Two objects can be far apart in space, but as far as quantum mechanics is concerned, it's as if they're a single entity.
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  6. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe

    Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
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  7. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    …The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
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  8. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe

    Even if we choose to use the nonstandard notion of distance and thereby describe the radius as being shorter than the Planck length, the physics we encounter-as discussed in previous sections-will be identical to that of a universe in which the radius, in the conventional sense of distance, is larger than the Planck length
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  9. Brian Greene

    Just as we envision all of space as really being out there, as really existing

  10. Brian Greene _ The Hidden Reality: Parallel

    Since the familiar particles and the objects they compose-stars, planets, people, etc.-amount to less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe, such a disruption would not affect the vast majority of the universe, at least as measured by mass.
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  11. Brian Greene _ The Hidden Reality: Parallel

    But Einstein refused to be mathematics' pawn. He bucked the equations in favor of his intuition about how the cosmos should be, his deep-seated belief that the universe was eternal and, on the largest of scales, fixed and unchanging. The universe, Einstein admonished Lemaître, is not now expanding and never was.
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  12. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe

    blissful as ignorance,
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