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Graustein Professor of Mathematics Shing-Tung Yau remembers receiving a phone call years ago from an unknown researcher in England informing him that the three mathematical structures discussed in his recently published “Calabi Yau Manifolds” were all essentially the same structure. Greene was the researcher...
Greene may also be the only person on earth who can discuss supersymmetry and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in the same conversation. In his occasional visits outside the realm of physics, he revels in music and theatre. If he weren’t a physicist, he says his dream would...
“I took a lot of acting classes, and not really to be an actor, but because I enjoyed the process because it’s so different from doing physics,” says Greene.
Greene says that while he finds it difficult to trust in a conventional divinity, he in fact finds a kind of spirituality through his research.
Currently, Greene is working on confirming string theory through telescoping observations of the microwave radiation left from the Big Bang. He believes strings that may have been stretched or smeared out by the expansion of the universe can be measured. Because particle accelerators aren’t powerful enough to...