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4 days ago · The Leuven Gravity Institute will be the visible front of gravitational research at KU Leuven, both towards the general public and towards industrial and other external partners. Our outreach activities were informally kicked off in March 2024 with a lecture by Prof Dr. Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize laureate in 2017 for his contributions to the LIGO ...
16 hours ago · Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was an executive producer and scientific consultant on the film, and wrote the tie-in book The Science of Interstellar. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot it on 35 mm movie film in the Panavision anamorphic format and IMAX 70 mm. Filming began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta, Klaustur, and Los Angeles.
6 days ago · For Thorne, travelling through space at a speed faster than light was a big no-no in his book, and Nolan ultimately agreed. Even though he was making a sci-fi blockbuster, Christopher Nolan remained beholden to real science to make 'Interstellar' as authentic as possible.
2 days ago · He worked with a friend on the faculty, Kip Thorne, and engaged him in a scientific wager about whether the X-ray source Cygnus X-1 was a black hole. The wager was an "insurance policy" against the proposition that black holes did not exist.
1 day ago · The book “Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy” by Kip Thorne; The documentary “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking” ...
4 days ago · Freeman explains how these two stories are connected in an extensive scheme that transcends time and space, underscored by brilliant visuals courtesy of hyper-detailed animations of cosmic events using suggestions and scientific data provided by astrophysicists, including the notes of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne, who was also the scientific consultant for Christopher Nolan’s ...
3 days ago · Kip Stephen Thorne, born on June 1, 1940, is an American theoretical physicist renowned for his significant contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He served as the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009.
