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Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
Reformed Jews don't have to quite believe in God.
Relativity can, for instance, explain that the universe had once been clumped into a dense fireball. But it can never explain how matter actually behaved.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality.
We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.
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