Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A...
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Source: Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Source: Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
“This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.”
“The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.”
“Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.”
“The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .”
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.”
“It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.”
“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”
“The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.”
“We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.”
Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
“The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.”
Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
“We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.”