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Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other. -- Francois Englert
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity. -- Kip Thorne
Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems. -- Hannes Alfven
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity. -- Kip Thorne
My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field. -- Carol Vorderman
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. -- Kevin McCarthy
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density. -- Lee Smolin
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. -- Imre Lakatos
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky. -- Stephen Hawking
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. -- Paul Davies
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. -- Murray Gell-Mann
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses. -- Kip Thorne
The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity. -- Richard P. Feynman
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself. -- Neil Turok
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. -- Norman Cousins
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. -- Dwight Schultz
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field. -- David R. Brower
Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry. -- Marshall Brickman
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull. -- Caitlin Rose
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. -- Lee De Forest
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy. -- Seth Shostak
Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible. -- Candice Olson
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out. -- Bill Lee
Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch. -- Richard Dawkins
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull. -- Kenneth Burke
Paul Bearer is so fat, he has his own gravitational pull! -- Jerry Lawler
The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull. -- Wayne Chang
His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest. -- Blakely Bennett
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. -- W. G. Sebald
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction. -- Lee Smolin
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope -- Norman Cousins
You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull. -- Ryan McGinley
I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have. -- Jennifer Lawrence
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. -- Donald A. Wollheim
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. -- Marshall McLuhan
Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. -- John D. Barrow
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect -- Murray Gell-Mann
Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull. -- David Brooks
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices. -- Warren Buffett
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow. -- Rikki Ducornet
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth. -- Albert Einstein
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. -- Dave Barry
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