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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...
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I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of... →

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I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and... →

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If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual... →

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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... →

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Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena... →

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Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the... →

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We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the... →

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When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with... →

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