Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must? - Alastair Reynolds

I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.

Clearly we missed something." "You have a fine talent for understatement.

Relativity distorted classical expectations in a way that Clavain still did not find entirely intuitive. Slam two objects towards each other, each with individual velocities just below light-speed, and the classical result for their closing velocity would be the sum of their individual speeds: just under twice the speed of light. Yet the true result, confirmed with numbing precision, was that the objects saw each other approach with a combined speed that was still just below the speed of light. Similarly, the relativistic closing velocity for two objects moving towards each other with individual speeds of one-half of light-speed was not light-speed itself, but eight-tenths of it. It was the way the universe was put together, and yet it was not something the human mind had evolved to accept.