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• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• Time dilates as the speed of light approaches. To the extent that light consists of particles, it is in its own way timeless.
  Through simple perturbations of the temporal manifold, we can refract or repel photons most efficiently....
• In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Frui...
• Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov "For I Have Tasted The Frui...
• This unusual specimen is not so much a classic particle as a connector--a kind of string attaching two particles.
  As distance increases the connective power becomes attenuated, but if it is cut the power vanishe...
• What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon?
  Decent people shouldn't think too much about that....
• The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components.
  Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks....
• A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone...
• The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat.
  I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say....