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In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to…

— Alan Guth

Space is much stiffer than you imagine; it's stiffer than a gigantic piece of iron. That's why it's taken so damned long to detect…

— Rainer Weiss

“Since so much of the physical universe, from brain waves to quantum waves, relies upon travelling waves we appreciate the key role played by…

— John D. Barrow

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are…

— Ken Poirot

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it…

— Brian Greene

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes,…

— Brian Greene

“This picture of matter curving space and curvaceous space dictating how matter and light will move has several striking features. It brings the non-Euclidean…

— John D. Barrow

A gravitational wave is a very slight stretching in one dimension. If there's a gravitational wave traveling towards you, you get a stretch in…

— Rainer Weiss

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music…

— Michio Kaku

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own…

— Leonard Susskind

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil…

— Leonard Susskind

The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves…

— Rainer Weiss