How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.
Timothy ZahnIf the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If thereโs one thing we authors are good at, itโs hand-waving.
Timothy Zahn