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Charles Liu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1443 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

That's what science is so cool about.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Yeah.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And that's why I always tell everybody that the questions are more important than the answers.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Because we can't get all the answers now.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

But if we ask the right questions, someday we will be able to answer them.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Well, the history of science is not linear, nor is it continuous, right?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

What we found over the centuries is that people ask a question,

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And they can't answer it.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And then you wait sometimes a really long time.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And then somebody just goes, hey, how about this?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And then someone goes, wow, that's neat.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Most people go, well, that's crazy.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

We can't ever figure that out.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And then somebody else says, you know what?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

We probably could.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

I'm thinking, of course, of general relativity, right?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

You know that famous story.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

People are trying to figure out gravity forever and how light travels through the universe.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And then over about a 15-year period, Albert Einstein first devises the special theory of relativity and then the general theory of relativity.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And people are like, oh, space bends and curves.