Kip Thorne works at a blackboard in a screenshot taken from the Interstellar promotional video. Credit: Warner Bros.
Astronomy enthusiasts are people like me. Like me, they love science of all kinds, and he loves science fiction. I especially love movies that take us to dystopian, mysterious, and exploratory futures that we can’t experience in everyday life. One of his most interesting recent films of this kind is his 2014 work. interstellarI’d wager there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen it too.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, the film did very well and quickly became a favorite of many science geeks.of new york times declared interstellar It explores the relationship between “science and faith, science and the humanities,” and says it shows a symbiosis between disciplines.
The film featured a cast that included Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon. The co-writer, director, and producer was Christopher Nolan, and the executive producer was none other than Kip Thorne, a renowned astronomer at the California Institute of Technology. Kip also acted as a scientific consultant for the film and wrote related books. interstellar science. He is very well known as one of the world’s leading experts on black holes, and for his years of astronomical work and many important colleagues, including his good friends Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. is known for its collaboration with
In 2017, Kipp was awarded the Nobel Prize with collaborators Reiner Weiss and Barry Barish for their significant contributions to the LIGO gravitational wave detector and the groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. I have had the pleasure of getting to know Kip in recent years. He is an active and frequent speaker and collaborator at the StarMath Festival, a scientific gathering of which I am a director. Without a doubt, he is one of the most brilliant, kind, and frankly funny people in the entire world of astronomy and astrophysics.
Born in Logan, Utah, Kip attended the California Institute of Technology and then earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University, the latter under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He returned to Caltech in 1967, and soon after, he became one of the youngest full professors in the university’s history. After a long and storied career, in which he also held several adjunct professorships, he resigned his professorship in 2009 to become professor emeritus and concentrate on his writing and film projects.
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In addition to being one of the founders of LIGO, Thorne is involved in black hole cosmology, hypothetical wormhole and time travel research, relativistic stars, and various other astrophysical and cosmological studies. I am an expert. He is the author of many important books. gravitya classic text co-authored with Charles Meisner and John Wheeler, and the famous black hole and time warp.
Kip’s involvement interstellar The film has become perhaps one of the most fascinating science fiction films not only of modern times, but perhaps of all time. The story begins in 2067, when Earthlings are facing global famine. The plot moves quickly and, while hypothetical, is smart enough to keep the uninitiated on their toes and earn the respect of those well-versed in science. McConaughey’s character discovers a gravitational anomaly in her bedroom, and the pattern leads to her NASA control facility. Meanwhile, the NASA team is preparing to travel through a wormhole near Saturn. McConaughey’s character leads a spaceship crew on this dangerous mission.
Through a wormhole, the crew discovers an ocean world filled with tidal waves, and return after 23 years on Earth and a time dilation of several hours for the crew. They envision escaping Earth to find a habitable world. Her second planet, passed through a wormhole, offers a potential habitat. In a series of complications, this goes awry and they search for a third planet. Countless adventures ensue, allowing writers and filmmakers to explore all sorts of dramatic and scientific subjects and possibilities.
Kip Thorne is a unique figure in the world of astronomy. He has been for many years one of the world’s best experts on the commission in a very important field that is at the forefront of our curiosity. Still, his brilliant ground-breaking knowledge does not limit his ability to communicate very smoothly and effectively with beginners and entertain us all with his touching stories.
interstellar Just a grand vision of this mixture. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, I highly recommend that you do. If you’ve seen it, you’ll probably want to watch it again someday to find out that there are hidden advisors in this story that could make the writing and direction a little better, a little more moving, for the wonders of science that we all cherish. You’ll notice that there are.
David J. Eicher is the editor astronomy, He is the author of 26 books on science and history and is a board member of the Starmus Festival and Lowell Observatory.