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“Revolutions that upend established scientific truth are exceedingly rare. But when they happen, they can have profound effects on science and technology.”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
“Reality for a young African American male in Richmond is measured by two things: If a day ends without his either killing someone or lying naked himself on a slab in the Contra Costa County coroner’s office, it is a success.”
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“Time, he realized, must be warped by the masses of heavy bodies such as the Earth or a black hole, and that warping is responsible for gravity. He embodied this insight in what I like to call “Einstein’s law of time warps,” a precise mathematical formula that I describe qualitatively this way: Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
“First, a weird claim: Black holes are made from warped space and warped time. Nothing else—no matter whatsoever.”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
“If we know the mass of a black hole and how fast it spins, then from Einstein’s relativistic laws we can deduce all the hole’s other properties: its size, the strength of its gravitational pull, how much its event horizon is stretched outward near the equator by centrifugal forces, the details of the gravitational lensing of objects behind it. Everything. This is amazing. So different from everyday experience. It is as though knowing my weight and how fast I can run, you could deduce everything about me: the color of my eyes, the length of my nose, my IQ, . . .”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
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