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The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics can be expressed without the aid of coordinates; and, indeed, their coordinate-free expressions are generally elegant and exceedingly powerful.

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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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If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.

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

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

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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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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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The jury is not in, so we just don't know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That's sad, that's unfortunate, but that's the direction in which things are pointing.

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Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can go through them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: June 1st, 1940

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