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I dedicate this to everyone blessed with an insatiable curiosity about everything and anything. | ||
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I dedicate this dissertation to my dad, Christopher Steinmetz, who never really got to know me. I still got your copy of Kip Thorne's ``Black Holes \& Time Warps'' with the dust cover bookmarking page 172: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy. I think we would have gotten along swimmingly. | ||
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\noindent Upon his dear friend Michele Besso's passing, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Besso's family which ended with: | ||
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``Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.'' | ||
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The past, the now, the yet to come,\\ | ||
All the same mechanical sum.\\ | ||
Write down the rules, the laws we borrow,\\ | ||
A glimpse of nature for all tomorrows.\\ | ||
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---A meter of physics\,\\ | ||
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