Multiverse Quotes

“His area of research had to do with superluminal particles, otherwise known as tachyons—a niche field that occupied one of the darkest recesses of special relativity. And there was good reason for that: no one had ever detected a tachyon. They were the stuff of science fiction. Tachyons were particles that could go faster than the speed of light. And if there was one thing that everyone understood—or misunderstood—about Einstein’s groundbreaking theory, it was that nothing could go faster than the speed of light. This wasn’t exactly true. To be more accurate, Einstein said that nothing that initially moved below the speed of light could be accelerated to move beyond the speed of light. And thus the question arose: could tachyons exist?”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“We didn’t exactly prove anything yet. We don’t call anything known unless we can reproduce it and study it further from all different angles.”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“I’m lucky enough to have had discussions with Greg Benford, a theoretical physicist and one of the great authors of what’s often considered “hard” science fiction,”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“Michael shook his head. “It’s not a stupid notion, but you have to realize that temperature is an indirect measure of average kinetic energy, and it is necessarily collisional”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse