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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Kip Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) 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 Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of... Read full biography of Kip Thorne → 1 2 Ctrl → A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its... → 0 'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. 0 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. 0 If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe. 0 If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. 0 The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. 0 We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age. 0 We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece. 0 Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. 0 A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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