Laura Mersini-Houghton

thumb|Laura Mersini-Houghton in 2014 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. Why Is Gravity So Elusive? Frank Wilczek, Erik Verlinde, Laura Mersini-Houghton 4 December 2017 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lui9qZ6cDs 11:20 of 40:44 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. What are the laws of the universe? Laura Mersini-Houghton, Gerard 't Hooft, Helen Beebee YouTube date-31 October 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RX9YqyGcP4 25:40 of 44:25 External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Cosmologists Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Living people Category:Physicists from Albania Category:Women scientists from the United States