Quotes About Space

when she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.

I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual expression as it is to communication. Even though you probably won't gesture as much if you are talking on the phone, you will still wave your arms about. Blind people gesture when they speak in the same way that seeing people do.

The same linguistic structures that allow us to soar through time and space and model entire universes in our heads also enable us to foresee our own mortality. Language also permits us to imagine a self that isn't earthbound and a world beyond death. So far it hasn't offered a way to avoid it.

Architectural gestures affect us in similar ways to human gestures.

Kylmä ulottuu kaikkialle Avaruuden todellinen olemus

Taivas: kylmä Maa: kylmä Minä: harhautunut niiden väliin

Gravity is the curvature of space.

Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard

God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts.

No one can rob infinity. For when Something is taken, angels join their wings And close the space so rapidly it seems To be illusion; unoccurred, undone.

The universe is but one immense unit; it cannot be separated into spatial domains that are totally empty and others that are completely filled with matter. Matter and space can be distinguished from each other, but where we draw the blurred line between them is largely a matter of taste.

Any space that distinguishes directions and accelerations cannot be "empty", in Aristotle's meaning.

REALITY OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY The uncertainty relation implies that there cannot be a region in space totally devoid of electromagnetic fields. They may well be absent on the average, but their energy fluctuations have to satisfy the uncertainty relation. We described the Casimir effect; it is nothing but a consequence of the inevitable fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. The fluctuations of zero-point energy are real and measurable, even if the zero-point energy itself is not.

The space that is added as the universe expands has the same properties-curvature, energy density-as the parent space.

Theory and experiment both show us that light does not need a material medium for propagation. We would have no trouble understanding this if light were nothing but particles zooming along through empty space. But that is not the way it goes: Light is a vibration, an oscillation made up of elementary oscillations we call photons. But there is no substance that oscillates when light propagates; thus we cannot impede the propagation of light when we remove substances from some given space.

It is impossible to bring a substance down to a temperature of absolute zero; there cannot be a blackbody without radiation because absolute zero cannot be reached. And that means that empty space in its true sense cannot be created.

John Maddox, the editor of the British journal Nature, had immediately suggested that the minister should be told that the Higgs boson can be explained similarly to the way we visualize the W and Z bosons: as carriers of information and effects. They permit us to understand effects that would otherwise look like long-distance action across empty space in the absence of any carrier.

Light is an excitation of empty space proper, of the vacuum. It is no more and no less.

The gravitational field of Earth will determine the direction of the rock that you drop from your hand. Aristotle concluded, from the simple fact that the rock "knows" in which direction to move, that space cannot be empty where it transmits that knowledge. Both Newton and Einstein would agree-the former because the gravitational field of Earth acts at the location of the rock, the latter because Earth's gravitational field actually curves space in that location.

At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created by dint of its explosive growth: The inflationary process generates space, and the energy that space contains, from essentially nothing. To repeat Alan Guth's dictum, "The universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

What really transcends our understanding is the mechanism that permits these oscillations of abstract field quantities to carry energy. We know this is true; our relevant equations say so, and the solar energy collectors prove it. A photoelectric cell registers at this instant an energy that left the Sun, in the form of light, some eight minutes ago. Travelling across space, this light did not lose its energy; rather, it is part of the energetic excitations within empty space.

Second, what properties distinguish an otherwise empty volume that retains only some black-body radiation at zero temperature-dubbed zero-degree radiation-from truly empty space? We will show that one remarkable feature of zero-degree radiation is shared with empty space: An observer is unable to determine whether he is at rest or moving with constant speed with respect to it.

There is field for every particle. If that field is concentrated in some spatial region, the particle of that field is likely to be located in that region once a detector looks for it. We introduced fields as abstract quantities associated with space; we describe a field as an excitation of space that oscillates like tall grasses in a heavy wind. Recall, however, that there is no material aspect to these field oscillations. Rather, a field is a field is a field.

There was absolute silence as though the arid stillness of planetary space were dropping slowly from the stars.