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Quotes of Note ...

“Reality is strange but real. We need more color in our lives and less in our quarks.”

Dr. Paul Werbos

In concluding, it is noteworthy the relative ease with which one may theoretically construct traversable wormholes with the exotic fluid equations of state used in cosmology to explain the present accelerated expansion of the Universe. As for phantom energy traversable wormholes, these Chaplygin variations have far reaching physical and cosmological implications, namely apart from being used for interstellar shortcuts, an absurdly advanced civilization may convert them into time machines, probably implying the violation of causality."

Francisco S. N. Lobo: Chaplygin traversable wormholes  http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511003

"The only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy."

Albert Einstein - "The Meaning of Relativity"

"No formal 'talent', 'wunderkind abilities', personal ambitions and relations, technical power, or material prosperity can replace the power of creation coming only from the open, free interaction with the Truth."

Andrei Kirilyuk - "Universal Concept of Complexity"

"Through this 'Key' Divine Intention can be connected to our world, and to other may be worlds. Some of those worlds can be the worlds of our dreams. "The 'Key to the Universe' is the archetype of evolution that now we know and can use consciously."

George Ryazanov - "Key to Absolute Flight"

"That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first...but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways."

Lewis Carroll - "Through the Looking Glass"

"About the multiverse, it is appropriate to keep an open mind, and opinions among scientists differ widely. In the Austin airport on the way to this meeting I noticed for sale the October issue of a magazine called Astronomy, having on the cover the headline “Why You Live in Multiple Universes.” Inside I found a report of a discussion at a conference at Stanford, at which Martin Rees said that he was sufficiently confident about the multiverse to bet his dog’s life on it, while Andrei Linde said he would bet his own life. As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog".

Steven Weinberg, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin, from Living in the Multiverse, Opening Talk at the Symposium ”Expectations of a Final Theory” at Trinity College, Cambridge, September 2, 2005; to be published in Universe or Multiverse?, ed. B. Carr (Cambridge University Press).

Dr. Jack Sarfatti, physicist and author of the book, "Super Cosmos"