The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Kip Thorne
- 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 made from warped space and time.
- We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.
- 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 a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.
- When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow.
- My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.
- Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes – maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we’re dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.
- When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.
- ‘Closed timelike curve’ is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
- If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
- When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it’s the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it’s going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
Kip Thorne, born June 1, 1940, is an eminent American theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to gravitational physics and astrophysics. He played a pivotal role in the theoretical underpinnings of black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
A graduate of Caltech and Princeton, Thorne was a professor at Caltech for nearly four decades. His groundbreaking work on gravitational waves, particularly his role in the LIGO project, led to the first direct detection of these waves in 2015, earning him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
Thorne’s influence extends beyond academia; he served as the scientific consultant and executive producer for the 2014 film “Interstellar,” ensuring the scientific accuracy of the movie’s depiction of black holes and relativity. Through his extensive research, publications, and public outreach, Thorne has significantly advanced our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena.
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