Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne,is an American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technologyuntil 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and acted as a scientific consultant in the science fiction film Interstellar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 June 1940
CountryUnited States of America
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.
Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.
The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.