John Preskill
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Don't ask me how to do this problem in such and such a course.
Don't ask me about somebody's paper.
I haven't read it.
I don't care about it.
Don't ask me about somebody's theorem.
I don't know that either.
I can't tell you.
Ask me about trying to understand something.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Everything is interesting.
My colleague Kip Thorne remembers that when he was a freshman, that must have been around 1958, he heard the rumor.
He went to the rumored room at the rumored time and finally was there.
And he said, okay, what do you want to talk about today?
And somebody says, oh, let's talk about waves on Mars.
Where that came from, I have no idea.
So he starts to talk about waves on Mars.
Well, let's say there's not really water on Mars, but let's suppose there is.
Maybe there were oceans before.
But the gravity is different than Earth.
So that means water waves will propagate at a different speed.