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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
The French translation of ‘a black hole has no hair’ is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
The resulting, stable singularities now carry the name BKL in honor of Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz. A BKL singularity is chaotic. Highly chaotic. And lethal. Highly lethal.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
We humans are confined to our brane.
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By AnonymKip S. Thorne
Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very deep about the nature of physical laws. But I don’t know.
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