Brian Greene Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Energy, Molecules

• When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

  Brian Greene

  Dark, Environmental, Energy

  "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos". Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. November 1, 2011.

• When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

  Brian Greene

  Car, Energy, Doe

• Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.

  Brian Greene

  Energy, Currency, Ultimate

• In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Light, Space

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