An article recorded some musings from a well known physicist. It looks like he's promoting a new book, so he's getting some coverage.
Main point: "His latest book, The God Equation, is a clear and accessible examination of the quest to combine Einstein’s general relativity with quantum theory to create an all-encompassing 'theory of everything' about the nature of the universe."
More about it:
- Theory of everything still being worked out: "I think we actually have the theory but not in its final form. It hasn’t been tested yet and Nobel prize winners have taken opposite points of view concerning something called string theory."
- Where we are in the process: "The destiny of science is to become like grandmasters, to solve this puzzle that we call the universe. There are outstanding questions that the public wants to have answers for."
- Like a 2-horse race: "Sometimes, the mathematics and the ideas are ahead of the concrete experimental data."
- Anyone who watched Independence Day knows it's a bad idea: "I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilisation. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea."
- Finding where religions are consistent with each other: "According to string theory, big bangs are happening all the time. Even as we speak, Genesis is taking place somewhere in the cosmos. And what is the universe expanding into? Nirvana. Eleven-dimensional hyperspace is Nirvana. So you can have Buddhism and Judeo-Christian philosophy in one theory."
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