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When Kids Look Up To Great Scientists The Way They Do To Great Musicians And Actors, Civilization Will Jump To The Next Level

When You Drive Your Car, E = Mc2 Is At Work. As The Engine Burns Gasoline To Produce Energy In The Form Of Motion, It Does So By Converting Some Of The Gasoline's Mass Into Energy, In Accord With Einstein's Formula.

If String Theory Is Right, The Microscopic Fabric Of Our Universe Is A Richly Intertwined Multidimensional Labyrinth Within Which The Strings Of The Universe Endlessly Twist And Vibrate, Rhythmically Beating Out The Laws Of The Cosmos.

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.

In The Far, Far Future, Essentially All Matter Will Have Returned To Energy. But Because Of The Enormous Expansion Of Space, This Energy Will Be Spread So Thinly That It Will Hardly Ever Convert Back To Even The Lightest Particles Of Matter. Instead, A Faint Mist Of Light Will Fall For Eternity Through An Ever Colder And Quieter Cosmos.