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Jul 2, 2024 · In his 1994 book Black Holes and Time Warps, the physicist Kip Thorne describes the "marked contrast" between the enthusiasm with which Michell and his contemporaries embraced the idea of ...
2 days ago · Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, served as scientific consultant and executive producer. Regarding the concepts of wormholes and black holes, Kip Thorne said he "worked on the equations that would enable tracing of light rays as they traveled through a wormhole or around a black hole—so what you see is based on Einstein ...
6 days ago · Kip S. Thorne is the Richard P. Feynman Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Member, National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences.
3 days ago · A Thorne–Żytkow object (TŻO or TZO), also known as a hybrid star, is a conjectured type of star wherein a red giant or red supergiant contains a neutron star at its core, formed from the collision of the giant with the neutron star. Such objects were hypothesized by Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow in 1977.
3 days ago · Discover the brainy backstory of The Big Bang Theory and Chuck Lorre's dedication to scientific authenticity. Explore physicists Kip Thorne & David Saltzberg's involvement, and a tribute to Bob Newhart. Dive into the real science behind the sitcom's laughs!
Jul 19, 2024 · About 1,000 Southern Californians listened as Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne (BS '62) reached across history, physics, and astronomy to highlight characters and discoveries that changed humanity's understanding of space and time.
Jul 6, 2024 · Kip Thorne works at a blackboard in a screenshot taken from a promotional video for Interstellar. Credit: Warner Brothers.Astronomy enthusiasts are my kinda people. Like me, they love all sorts of science, and science fiction, too — particularly films that lead us into a dystopian, mysterious, explo...
