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“I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.” quote by Kip Thorne — Download Open image

“I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.”

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My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.

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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…

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Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects.

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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…

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I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make…

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I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the…

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Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether…

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If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

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Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can…

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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…

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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…

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A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so…

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