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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.
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.
Revolutions that upend established scientific truth are exceedingly rare. But when they happen, they can have profound effects on science and technology.
Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.
No matter how hard we may try, we can only travel forward. The relativistic laws guarantee it.
The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.
The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.
We humans are confined to our brane.
singularities, he asserted, "are a place in which the fiery marriage of Einstein's relativistic laws with the quantum laws is consummated.
Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.
In 2014, the Earth's gravity is weakest in southern India (blue spot) and strongest in Iceland and Indonesia (red spots).
