Indian - Physicist | July 15, 1956 -
To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.
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Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work.
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My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.
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The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
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One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.
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I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.
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I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.
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In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where gravity becomes important as well as small distances where quantum mechanics is important.
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Since my work is theoretical, the financial needs are very little. Doing the research itself is the toughest challenge.
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