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You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.
“You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.”
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“You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.”
“I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.”
“I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.”
“I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.”
“A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.”
“Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.”
“Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?”
“I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.”
“There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.”
“This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.”
“Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.”
“Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.”