Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.