Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there. The greater the slowing of time, the stronger gravity's pull.... At the surface of a black hole, time is slowed to a halt.
Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Showing posts with label Einstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Einstein. Show all posts
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…. The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
Albert Einstein, as quoted in the New York Review.
Albert Einstein, as quoted in the New York Review.
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