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• 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...
• What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon?
  Decent people shouldn't think too much about that....
• We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly.
  The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths....
• The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components.
  Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks....
• 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....
• 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....
• Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique?
  Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable?...
• 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....