Gravity Is Matter’s Sugar Daddy.

The Tantalizing Discomfort Of Perplexity Is What Inspires Otherwise Ordinary Men And Women To Extraordinary Feats Of Ingenuity And Creativity; Nothing Quite Focuses The Mind Like Dissonant Details Awaiting Harmonious Resolution.

In Quantum Mechanics There Is A Causing B. The Equations Do Not Stand Outside That Usual Paradigm Of Physics. The Real Issue Is That The Kinds Of Things You Predict In Quantum Mechanics Are Different From The Kinds Of Things You Predict Using General Relativity. Quantum Mechanics, That Big, New, Spectacular Remarkable Idea Is That You Only Predict Probabilities, The Likelihood Of One Outcome Or Another. That's The New Idea.

In My Own Research When I'm Working With Equations, I Never Feel Like I Really Understand What I'm Doing If I'm Solely Relying On The Mathematics For My Understanding. I Need To Have A Visual Picture In My Mind. I'm Constantly Translating From The Math To Some Intuitive Mind's-eye Picture.

I Think It's Too Fast To Say That All Sci-fi Ultimately Winds Up Having Some Place In Science. On The Other Hand, Imaginative Minds Working Outside Of Science As Storytellers Certainly Have Come Upon Ideas That, With The Passing Decades, Have Either Materialized Of Come Close To Materializing.

Black Holes Provide Theoreticians With An Important Theoretical Laboratory To Test Ideas. Conditions Within A Black Hole Are So Extreme, That By Analyzing Aspects Of Black Holes We See Space And Time In An Exotic Environment, One That Has Shed Important, And Sometimes Perplexing, New Light On Their Fundamental Nature.