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Nov 16, 2005 · "Einstein's General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005: Warped Spacetime, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Accelerating Universe," was presented as part ...
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- caltech
Introduction to General Relativity (1/5), by Kip Thorne. This is one lecture of the Online Course On Gravitational Waves put together by Pau Amaro-Seoane: ht...
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- Astro-GR
Mar 11, 2016 · The 2018 Reines Lecture was presented by Kip Thorne, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection of gravitational waves. The discovery, part...
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- UCI School of Physical Sciences
Lectures for the general public. Communicating Science to Nonscientists in Post-Election & Post-Pandemic America: Talk by Kip Thorne followed by panel discussion with Brian Greene (moderator), Alan Alda, April Burke, and Cailin O'Connor.
- My Youth
- My University Student Years
- Early Years as A Caltech Professor
- Caltech’s Early Research in Gravitational-Wave Experiment
- Ligo
- My Students and Postdocs
- A New Career at The Interface of Science and The Arts
- My Family
I was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, a college town of 16,000, nestled in a verdant valley in the Rocky Mountains. My father, David Wynne Thorne, was a professor of soil chemistry at the Utah Agricultural College (since renamed Utah State University). Over his lifetime he had a major impact, through research and consulting, on arid-land agricult...
Despite my university experience as a teenager, when I arrived at Caltech as a freshman in September 1958, I found myself overwhelmed. I had had no calculus, I was a slow reader, and it quickly became evident that my thinking was slower than that of most other Caltech freshmen. I stumbled and struggled for a year and a half, but gradually developed...
When I arrived back at Caltech in 1966, there was a paucity of theoretical physics faculty working outside elementary particle theory. Particle theory was in the doldrums and I was bubbling over with research problems involving black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational waves, so a number of outstanding physics graduate students gravitated towar...
In his Part I of our joint Nobel Lecture, Rai Weiss describes the early history of experimental research on gravitational waves, including (very briefly) at Caltech. Here I shall add some details about the genesis and early years of the Caltech experimental effort. My early ideas about gravitational-wave experiment were influenced profoundly by Vla...
In 1984 – building on successes with the interferometer prototypes at MIT, Caltech, Glasgow and Garching, and building on a feasibility study for kilometer-sized interferometers that Weiss and his MIT group and Whitcomb had carried out – Drever, Weiss and I founded LIGO as a Caltech/MIT collaboration. MIT was unwilling to make any substantial insti...
Over the near-half-century of my career, my graduate students and postdocs have done much more important and impactful research, while in my group, than I myself. I take great pride in their accomplishments, some of which I describe in my Nobel Lecture. In many cases they took research problems that I suggested, and with very little help from me, b...
Since 2009 I have turned much of my effort in a very different direction: collaborations about science with artists, musicians and film makers. Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar was one fruit of this, and with Stephen Hawking and my long-time Hollywood partner, Lynda Obst, I have a second science-inspired movie in the works. With the painter L...
This is a scientific biography, so I have chosen not to discuss my two marriages (to Linda Thorne, 1960–1975; and then to Carolee Winstein, 1984–…), nor Linda’s and my children Kares Anne Thorne and Bret Carter Thorne (and his wife Regine Thorne), and granddaughter Larisa Anne Thorne. Suffice it to say that they all have been tremendously important...
LIGO and Gravitational Waves III. Kip S. Thorne delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 9 MB.
The talk encompassed gravitational waves, black holes, the Big Bang, the warping of spacetime and, of course, Interstellar. All of these seemingly disparate topics have a common thread: Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity.
