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Despite its importance for us, for our biosphere, and for the cosmos, gravity is actually amazingly feeble compared with the other forces that affect atoms.

Martin Rees (2000)



Space is a swarming in the eyes; and time
A singing in the ears.

— Shade John (1964)



You’re trying to find the one metric given to you by God.

Robert Greene (2008)



We see that if there are three large dimensions of space because of some deep principle of nature, then we are very fortunate.

John Barrow (1994)



Unfortunately, the level of random fluctuations that would be expected to exist at any time in the universe was far too low to generate the structures we see today.

John Barrow (1994)



[If] the gravitational entropy … increases with time then the initial state of the universe was one of very low, or even zero, gravitational entropy.

John Barrow (1994)



The search then began for a natural process … which would insure that if the universe began with, say, nine space dimensions all expanding equally, six of those dimensions would remain trapped …. How this trapping might occur is still an unsolved problem.

John Barrow (1994)