Karandhara: They have a theory that if they can get a . . . if they can get a machine to go at the speed of light . . .
Prabhupāda: That, that is their . . . that is rascaldom. They will say like that, but nobody has become able, neither they are able.
Karandhara: They say they can stop time.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Karandhara: They say if you travel at the speed of light, time stops.
Prabhupāda: Time stops . . . anyway, nobody has gone. They have gone to the nearest planet, they say. I do not know whether they have gone at all. (laughter)
Yaśomatīnandana: You don't think, Prabhupāda, they have reached the moon?
Prabhupāda: No. There are so many invisible planets. Not that all the stars and planets you can see. Just like Rāhu planet. That is not seen. And when the Rāhu planet passes through, that is eclipse. But they describe in a different way. Actually, it is the Rāhu planet which passes before the sun and moon, and there is eclipse. There are so many questionable things of the theory that . . . the eclipse theory of the modern view. That is not correct according to Vedic theory.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The eclipse?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But the science proves it.
Prabhupāda: Science proves everything. (chuckles) That is their nonsense. They, amongst their community, they have proved everything except what he is, he does not know. Except that thing, what he is, he does . . . he does not know. And why he dies, he does not know. That is his knowledge.