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Physics Is Often Stranger Than Science Fiction, And I Think Science Fiction Takes Its Cues From Physics: Higher Dimensions, Wormholes, The Warping Of Space And Time, Stuff Like That.

When We're Born, We Want To Know Why The Stars Shine. We Want To Know Why The Sun Rises.

I Often Think That We Are Like The Carp Swimming Contentedly In That Pond. We Live Out Our Lives In Our Own "pond," Confident That Our Universe Consists Of Only The Familiar And The Visible. We Smugly Refuse To Admit That Parallel Universes Or Dimensions Can Exist Next To Ours, Just Beyond Our Grasp. If Our Scientists Invent Concepts Like Forces, It Is Only Because They Cannot Visualize The Invisible Vibrations That Fill The Empty Space Around Us. Some Scientists Sneer At The Mention Of Higher Dimensions Because They Cannot Be Conveniently Measured In The Laboratory.

Physicists Often Quote From T. H. White's Epic Novel The Once And Future King, Where A Society Of Ants Declares, "everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory." In Other Words, If There Isn't A Basic Principle Of Physics Forbidding Time Travel, Then Time Travel Is Necessarily A Physical Possibility. (the Reason For This Is The Uncertainty Principle. Unless Something Is Forbidden, Quantum Effects And Fluctuations Will Eventually Make It Possible If We Wait Long Enough. Thus, Unless There Is A Law Forbidding It, It Will Eventually Occur.)

When I Was 16 Years Old, I Assembled A 2.3 Million Electron Volt Beta Particle Accelerator. I Went To Westinghouse, I Got 400 Pounds Of Translator Steel, 22 Miles Of Copper Wire, And I Assembled A 6-kilowatt, 2.3 Million Electron Accelerator In The Garage.