[T]here is no ether at all. This is now the received wisdom following Einstein’s work ….
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View All Authors View SourcesThe existence of time is a mystery. There is no use for it.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 63
In more conventional quantum mechanical terms, we would say that the Universe is the result of a quantum mechanical tunneling process, where it must be interpreted as having tunnelled from nothing at all.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 90
A major extension of physics will be necessary to delve into the first 10-43 second and follow the history of the universe in those first quantum moments when it was entirely shrouded in mystery.
— John Barrow (1983)
p. 63
The study of the Wave Function of the Universe is in its infancy. It will undoubtedly change in many ways before it is done.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 91
What we really want is some principle that tells us why the organization of the Universe changes in the way that it does: why it now expands so uniformly and isotropically.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 180
The question of why the Universe is as it is, is inextricably linked to that of why fundamental physics is the way that it is.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 67
(E)lementary particles come in populations of universally identical particles.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 228
The symbols are 0, ‘zero’, S, ‘successor of’, +, ×, and =.
— John Barrow (2007)
p. 54