No Matter How Hard You

That Is, You Can Have Nothingness, Absolute Nothingness For Maybe A Tiny Fraction Of A Second, If A Second Can Be Defined In That Arena, But Then It Falls Apart Into A Something And An Anti-something. And That Something Is Then What We Call The Universe. But Can We Really Understand That Or Put Rigorous Mathematics Or Testable Experiments Against That? Not Yet. So One Of The Big Holy Grail Of Physics Is To Understand Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.

String Theory Envisions A Multiverse In Which Our Universe Is One Slice Of Bread In A Big Cosmic Loaf. The Other Slices Would Be Displaced From Ours In Some Extra Dimension Of Space.

I Would Say In One Sentence My Goal Is To At Least Be Part Of The Journey To Find The Unified Theory That Einstein Himself Was Really The First To Look For.

I Believe The Process Of Going From Confusion To Understanding Is A Precious, Even Emotional, Experience That Can Be The Foundation Of Self-confidence.

When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick The Size To Ensure It Fits. Similarly, We Live In A Universe In Which The Amount Of Dark Energy Fits Our Biological Make-up. If The Amount Of Dark Energy Were Substantially Different From What We've Measured, The Environmental Conditions Would Be Inhospitable To Our Form Of Life.