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TravelGal
04-15-08, 07:10 PM
In his 1998 autobiography, "Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics," he wrote that the black hole "teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but."

Anyone that brilliant will be missed. I remember checking out his books zillions (!) of times when I worked in the Chemistry Library at Purdue.