"Many scientists are like Einstein, in that they have a deep emotional attachment to determinism. Unlike Einstein, they have accepted the reduction in our ability to predict, that quantum theory brought about."

"Will calculated the equal and opposite reaction the merged holes experience as they cast off that momentum. The recoil speed - about 200 kilometers per second - is fast enough to eject the merged black hole from small galaxies."

"The new universe will disconnect from our own and continue on its merry way. From our point of view, the child universe will look like a microscopic black hole that emits a bit of Hawking radiation and then vanishes."