Laura Mersini-Houghton

Laura Mersini-Houghton, née Mersini. is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Quotes

 * If gravity is a fundamental force, then it has to be explained by an expanded version of general relativity, a more complete, a more fundamental theory. Whether that is quantum gravity of something more radical that requires a paradigm shift like, for instance, our research in multiverse theory, nobody knows at the moment.
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 * You can vary Newton's constant and the fine-structure constant, which is responsible for the strength of electromagnetic interactions ... by six orders of magnitude, by thousands, and still get a universe that allows for life.
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