Quotes About Physics

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.

an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: "Wormholes in space.

Minkowski spacetime.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics

The billion-year battle against the force of gravity was over.

Even if, to the naked human eye, a waterfall and a shower of bricks appeared very different, they were really much the same. The tiny "bricks" of H2O were too small to be visible to the unaided senses, but they could be easily discerned by the instruments of the physicists.

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's an engineer's phantom. There's only inertia.

Gravity was down to about half sea level.

Einsteinian time dilation.

classical Hohmann orbit—

magnetostriction

If you sat down, you were heavier than when you stood up.

holographic principle.

magnetohydrodynamic

Second World War was the physicists' war, because the atom bomb was detonated.

Because a quantum computer deals with 1's and 0's that are in a quantum superposition, they are called quantum bits, or qubits (pronounced "cubits"). The advantage of qubits becomes even clearer when we consider more particles.

It has been said that the First World War was the chemists' war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time, and that the Second World War was the physicists' war, because the atom bomb was detonated. Similarly, it has been argued that the Third World War would be the mathematicians' war, because mathematicians will have control over the next great weapon of war—information.

meantime, here is a list of degrees for five of the nerdiest writers: J. STEWART BURNS BS Mathematics, Harvard University MS Mathematics, UC Berkeley DAVID S. COHEN BS Physics, Harvard University MS Computer Science, UC Berkeley AL JEAN BS Mathematics, Harvard University KEN KEELER BS Applied Mathematics, Harvard University PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University JEFF WESTBROOK BS Physics, Harvard University PhD Computer Science, Princeton University

the lifting against the natural force of gravity of two-hundred-odd tons of airplane and three-hundred-odd human beings to an entirely unsustainable altitude of seven or so miles, and then propelling all without interruption for many long hours, suspended by nothing more than a lately realized principle of physics, high above a cold and highly dangerous expanse of sea.

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

Does light go faster when it goes downhill?