Kip Thorne in the context of "Stephen Hawking"

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⭐ Core Definition: Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and writer known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1991 until 2009. He has spoken about the astrophysical implications of the general theory of relativity. He was a scientific consultant for the Christopher Nolan films Interstellar and Tenet.

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Kip Thorne in the context of Wormhole

A wormhole is a hypothetical structure that connects disparate points in spacetime. It can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both). Wormholes are based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations.Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity, but whether they actually exist is unknown. Many physicists postulate that wormholes are merely projections of a fourth spatial dimension, analogous to how a two-dimensional (2D) being could experience only part of a three-dimensional (3D) object.

In 1995, Matt Visser suggested there may be many wormholes in the universe if cosmic strings with negative mass were generated in the early universe. Some physicists, such as Kip Thorne, have suggested how to create wormholes artificially.

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Theoretical physics → Writer → Gravitation → Astrophysics → Rainer Weiss → Barry C. Barish → Nobel Prize in Physics → LIGO → Gravitational wave → Stephen Hawking → Carl Sagan → Richard Feynman → California Institute of Technology → General relativity → Christopher Nolan → Interstellar (film) → Tenet (film) →