A Cosmic Conversation with Kip Thorne

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Could you travel back in time through a wormhole? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne to reflect on discovering gravitational waves with LIGO, the science in the movie Interstellar, black holes, and many more mysteries still yet to be answered.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.9	This is StarTalk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. And today, we're
0:23.0	featuring one of our one-on-one conversations. This time with Professor of Theoretical Physics,
0:31.7	Kip Thorne. Kip Thorne, welcome to StarTalk.
0:34.4	A pleasure to be with you, Neil. Oh, my gosh. We are coming from your home office in Pasadena, California.
0:42.9	It's a wonderful office.
0:44.1	My son designed this part of the house and built it.
0:48.2	And my brother designed and built all the furniture.
0:51.5	These are really useful people to have in the family.
0:54.6	It's a wonderful family being.
0:58.1	They're the practical ones.
1:00.2	I've actually known you for some time,
1:02.2	not that we were beer drinking buddies, but...
1:04.2	I think we've drunk beers together in the Canary Islands.
1:07.6	Yes, we did. Okay, okay.
1:10.3	I stand corrected.
1:12.6	But my first exposure to you was you were one of the three authors of this book called
1:19.8	Gravitation.
1:21.6	And we used to joke, of course, it was the only book where you learned about it just
1:25.9	by carrying it around.
1:28.3	And I think we probably wrote it before you were born.
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