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July 25th, 2024
Professor Kip Thorne.
Image credit: Irina Logra
Do you believe time travel is possible and if so, how?
What is something you don’t know but you would like to understand?
What’s the future of gravitational wave astronomy?
The answers flow from noted astrophysics guru/Noble Prize winner, Kip Thorne – yes, he was the science advisor for “Interstellar” the memorable science fiction epic.
Thorne recently provided an audience at CalTech an odyssey through the warped side of our Universe
Weird facets
“In the sixty-odd years of my career in astrophysics, we have come to understand that our universe has a very rich warped side,” Thorne explains. “By this I mean objects and phenomena made from warped spacetime instead of from matter.”
Thorne details weird facets of black holes that you may not have not heard of before. And also likely new to you: voracious, “vacuum fluctuations” — tiny bits of everything that ever could inhabit our universe, flashing in and out of existence, randomly.
“These fluctuations suck energy from rapidly distorting spacetime and use it to convert themselves into real, material stuff,” Thorne advises.
Sit back, relax, and float up stream with Thorne in his July 12 presentation and conversation with other noted astrophysicists at:
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