A book and a quote
I only know who physicists Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson are because they were mentioned in an episode of Stargate Atlantis (question asked, 'who would you rather fool around with: Neil deGrasse Tyson or Brian Greene?'). By coincidence, today I checked a book by Greene out from the library, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, and today I also came across a remark made by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...... Two American goals that took a decade, and more than $100 billion to achieve: 1) Walk on the Moon 2) Find Bin Laden.
posted by crystal | 6:05 PM
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I can't help thinking of the world I grew up in.....in the 1950s we could barely acknowledge the first one of those subjects as a remote possibility, and we couldn't in any way imagine the second.
Hi Susan.
It's strange how we never really seem see what's coming, even when we prepare.
This is an aside, I guess, but I really like Brian Greene. I've read two of his books, and my son Paul (at NYU, studying Physics) did some work with him on a book. I also met him here in Seattle, when he came out for a speaking gig, and have a great DVD from Astronomy Magazine where he talks about string theory.
Greene has the ability to popularize physics, in the same way that Carl Sagan helped popularize Astronomy/Cosmology. He can help make it real, and fun...and that's a lot harder to do with physics than with Astronomy.
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