If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches.… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
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… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
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… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
