Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.