Andrea M. Ghez famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right.
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As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.
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Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.
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The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
-- Andrea M. Ghez
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Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
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Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
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For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.
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Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
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Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
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I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.
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