Rainer Weiss The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn’t know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave. – Rainer Weiss Bar Quotes Exist Quotes Fascinated Quotes Gravitational Quotes Idea Quotes Interacts Quotes Life Quotes Students Quotes Understand Quotes Wave Quotes Waves Quotes I said, suppose you take a light – I was thinking of just light bulbs because, in those days, lasers were not yet really there – and sent a light pulse between two masses. Then you do the same when there’s a gravitational wave. Lo and behold, you see that the time it takes light to go from one mass to the other changes because of the wave. Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it’d be an itsy bitsy little tiny thing; we’d never see it. This thing was so big that you didn’t have to do much to see it.
Megan Mullally There’s kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you’re an actor and you have a band, everyone’s, ‘Ugh, disgusting! It’s a vanity project.’ – Megan Mullally
Monica Ali I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose. – Monica Ali
Barry Gardiner The pluralist society must be pragmatic. It does not say that ‘God is dead.’ It does not say that ‘God is alive.’ It says if we are to answer the question of how we can live together then we must remain agnostic on all such matters – at least so far as our civic association is structured. – Barry Gardiner
Simon Beaufoy The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it’s not complex: it’s an arrow straight to the heart. – Simon Beaufoy
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