Joanne Baker > Quotes

“Falling into a black hole would not be pleasant, having your limbs torn asunder and all the while appearing to your friends to be frozen in time just as you fell in”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

“touchstone”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire—in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe

“Bohr also argued that the very word "observer" is wrong because it conjures up a picture of an external viewer separated from he world that is being watched. A photographer... may capture the natural beauty of the Yosemite wilderness, but is it really untouched by man? How can it be if the photographer himself is there too? The real picture is of a man standing within nature not separate from it.”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

“Bohr also argued that the very word "observer" is wrong because it conjures up a picture of an external viewer separated from the world that is being watched. A photographer... may capture the natural beauty of the Yosemite wilderness, but is it really untouched by man? How can it be if the photographer himself is there too? The real picture is of a man standing within nature not separate from it.”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

“The Sun contains most of the mass of the solar system (99.9 percent) in a ball whose diameter is about 100 times that of the Earth. It is about 150 million kilometers away, and light from it takes eight seconds to reach us.”
― Joanne Baker, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe