Quotes from Andrew Thomas

if the Sun disappeared instantaneously, the Earth would continue to orbit the position of the Sun for seven minutes until the bad news reached us in the form of gravitational waves.

Why are there only three dimensions? It

a stationary object moves through time at the speed of light.

The first theme is "connectedness". Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.

As string theorist Brian Greene says in The Elegant Universe: "Another possibility, should strings fail to be the final theory, is that they are one more layer in the cosmic onion.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The message from quantum mechanics is that we should treat the universe as one connected, entangled object.

Quantum mechanics tells us that everything is connected as one object: the universe. And relativity tells us that the universe is the only thing that exists.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

So a nuclear reactor is based on a nuclear chain reaction in much the same way as we have seen a nuclear bomb is also based on a nuclear chain reaction.

However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — suggested that the Earth was not the centre of the universe about which all celestial bodies orbited. By challenging the geocentric model of the Solar System, Galileo found himself accused of heresy and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.

We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern:

Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory.

Innate creativity may have an underlying chaotic process that selectively amplifies small fluctuations and molds them into macroscopic coherent mental states that are experienced as thoughts. In some cases the thoughts may be decisions, or what are perceived to be the exercise of will. In this light, chaos provides a mechanism that allows for free will within a world governed by deterministic laws.

Whereas, all that is happening is the Earth is following a straight line in curved space.

The process of unification could be equated to a tree, with each theory being a leaf on the end of a twig.

A time dimension is required so that energy is possible.

According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

everything travels through spacetime at the speed of light.

Three is a natural result for the number of dimensions. It is natural because it is a number close to one. The closer to one, the better, the more in line with our expectations.

To weigh something one needs a platform on which to stand to do the weighing.

Graft at your craft!

Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.

Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.