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I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.

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Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

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Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing – how they bend light from other objects.

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If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

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The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.

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My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.

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Sending people into space is very important culturally. That’s really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

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We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

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We’ll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We’ll be probing the birth of the universe with this. The so-called ‘inflationary era‘ of the universe. We’ll be probing the birth of the fundamental forces and how they came into being.

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Our universe – it’s three-dimensional, but we can pretend it’s two-dimensional so it’s like this sheet of paper – and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it’s thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.

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I do hope that ‘Interstellar’ and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science – and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.

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We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.

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When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.

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I can’t imagine not being in a phase where I’m trying to understand something or create something. That’s the essence of life.

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I can enjoy ‘Harry Potter‘ and ‘Star Trek,’ but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

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When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it’s the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it’s going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

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In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.

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I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.

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I’m a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.

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As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I’m very humble.

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We’re going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory – it’s the main missing piece.

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When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.

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