” ‘Closed timelike curve’ is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. “
” Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. “
” 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. “
” As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you’re two feet, so it’s impressive. “
” 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. “
” If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don’t find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe. “
” If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. “
” It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up. “
” 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. “
” If you have somebody who’s brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen. “
” I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that’s the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked. “
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