“As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.” WayShouldCertainTheoryBehaveExtrasDimensionsStringsConsistencyRequirementsString Theory Author:Roger Penrose
“There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesMomentsHappensRunningPurposeCertainUniverseBitsChanceViewsExistenceDeeperAccidentsHelpful Author:Roger Penrose