General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density. — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Because looking at you is like falling into a black hole—stupid, confusing, and probably detrimental to my existence.” — Kimberly Spencer Copy Share Image
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“- Do you have books? - Books on what? - any thing, comets, gravity, black holes ... - Yeah, I've got Shakespeare,… — Conversation Copy Share Image
“history never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Falling into a black hole would not be pleasant, having your limbs torn asunder and all the while appearing to your friends… — Joanne Baker Copy Share Image
“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Considering the energy balance, the reduction in size and the rise in temperature of the black hole form a feedback mechanism that… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Even in the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these street were completely dark, like black holes, and the… — Unknow Copy Share Image
But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“I changed my mind. Maybe I do want a black hole for a vagina. How bad could it be? I wouldn't need… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think the cult of personality is the thing that people find a real problem with. It's hard to unify behind something… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Gradually, it sank in. The Mother Beast was dead. I had killed her. The taste of her blood burned in my mouth.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“The key to a black hole's strange properties is the way it curves space-time. A black hole takes up no space at… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Where are you taking me?” Andrew demanded, whirling on the Ferryman. His muscles tensed, hands curling in and out of fists. “To… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.” — Vishwanath S J Copy Share Image
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Pretending not to see would, she believes, take her past some point of no return, past the event horizon of hypocrisy into… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size.… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“And he loved her so much that when he imagined losing her it felt like looking into a black hole. Isn’t that… — Sarah Lyons Fleming Copy Share Image
There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way… — Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel Copy Share Image
“That’s good. Don’t be a miser about love. Be a spendthrift. The more you give, the more you will have. Love is… — Osho Copy Share Image
![“But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future maybe to listen not just to black holes colliding, but maybe listen to the big bang…” quote by Brian Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/706/brian-greene-2334_able_but-if-you-think-about-a-practical-impli_440947.jpg)
