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"Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea." -Richard P. Feynman
Astronomers discovered two runaway stars racing out of our galaxy at speeds 10 times faster than the fastest human-made spacecraft.
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." -Alan Watts "They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead." -J.R.R. Tolkien One of the most amazing facts about the Universe is that, despite only having spent a few hundred years studying the fundamental constituents and forces of what makes us up, humanity has been able to accurately figure out just what all this actually is.
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." -Vladimir Nabokov The wonderful images we take of deep space -- from distant galaxies to all the stars, clusters, and nebulae within our own galaxy -- all have something in common.
MIT Professor Deepto Chakrabarty has been named as the new head of the MIT Department of Physics.