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" When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow. "

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" When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light. "

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" I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep. "

" Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it. "

" Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. "

" 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. "

" We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age. "

" The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. "

" We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way. "

" 'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. "

" I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction. "

" I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me. "

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" A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time. "

" As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive. "

" My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions. "

" I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked. "

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" If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. "

" 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. "

" I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time. "

" If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen. "

" The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics can be expressed without the aid of coordinates; and, indeed, their coordinate-free expressions are generally elegant and exceedingly powerful. "

" I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with. "

" I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was. "

" Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. "

" The jury is not in, so we just don't know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That's sad, that's unfortunate, but that's the direction in which things are pointing. "

" We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece. "

" As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble. "

" Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can go through them. "

" 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 we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity. "

" It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up. "

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