Quotes About Gravity

The field equations and the whole history of general relativity have been complicated.

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

If you're in a helicopter, and you hover, why does the Earth not come to you if it's round?

Do you understand this is serious? I understand you think it's serious.

Henry was important, but important rather as an elephant is important, from the size of his department; there are some kinds of importance that remain hopelessly damned to unseriousness.

Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole.

Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time," he said.

His physical body, this physical body was not—could not be—in the past. But gravity could. Like Tars said, gravity cut across and through all of the dimensions. When he punched at one of them, what he was really doing was sending a pulse through space-time, a gravitic surge that was responsible for moving the books.

How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me. 'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

When we see a planet being "deflected by the force of gravity," Einstein says it is really just traveling in a straight line.

The most famous story about gravity involves Isaac Newton and an apple that supposedly fell on his head, inspiring him to concoct his theory of universal gravitation. (It's mostly famous because Newton himself couldn't stop telling it later in life, in an unnecessary attempt to add some extra juice to his reputation as a genius.)

Extraneous motion decreases the time elapsed between two events in spacetime, whereas it increases the distance traveled between two points in space.

The laws of nature are not intelligent,' I replied. 'The force of gravity is not intelligent. Electricity is not intelligent. A savage looking at a television might assume that it's a sapient being, but we—' 'A sapient being? Looking at a television these days, the only possible assumption is that it's a loud-mouthed, hysterical madman suffering from progressive mental debility,' Anna Tikhonovna said derisively.

The sky's not for us. We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by space And I learnt that time slows near a black hole. Inside a black hole, time stops altogether. Whether or not this theory will ever be proved, I'm moved to believe this would be the perfect place to love someone.

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

So, listen, I drive from coast to coast, and this (expletive) is flat to me. I'm just saying. I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat.

I could come up with no answer. He had kissed my hand. The forces of gravity came unraveled; there was no cohesion at the core of the world, no order in the universe. Clouds and trees and birds and suns spun around of their own volition, freed from their laws and routines. Bryan had kissed my hand. I could not be rational; and so nothing in the world would make sense again.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.