Kip S. Thorne Quotes

#1. Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

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#2. Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

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#3. Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?

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#4. An explosion in space makes no sound, as there is no air to transmit the sound waves.

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#5. Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

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#6. The environment near Gargantua will become more dangerous for individual life forms, including humans, promoting faster evolution if enough individuals survive.

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#7. singularities, he asserted, "are a place in which the fiery marriage of Einstein's relativistic laws with the quantum laws is consummated.

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#8. The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.

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#9. In 2014, the Earth's gravity is weakest in southern India (blue spot) and strongest in Iceland and Indonesia (red spots).

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#10. The resulting, stable singularities now carry the name BKL in honor of Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz. A BKL singularity is chaotic. Highly chaotic. And lethal. Highly lethal.

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#11. Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand.

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#12. How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible

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#13. We humans are confined to our brane.

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#14. No matter how hard we may try, we can only travel forward. The relativistic laws guarantee it.

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#15. Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

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#16. The first planet that Cooper and his crew visit is Miller's. The most impressive things about this planet are the extreme slowing of time there, gigantic water waves, and huge tidal gravity. All three are related, and arise from the planet's closeness to Gargantua.

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#17. The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

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