Kip Thorne quotes
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“Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.”
-- Kip ThorneSource : "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.
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“If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.”
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“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.”
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“When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.”
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“Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.”
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“Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.”
-- Kip ThorneSource : "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.
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“The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.”
-- Kip Thorne
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.
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