Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
Blog post with show notes, audio player, and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/episode-24-kip-thorne-on-gravitational-waves-time-travel-and-interstellar/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll
I remember vividly hosting a colloquium speaker, about fifteen years ago, who talked about the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, which had just started taking data. Comparing where they were to where they needed to get to in terms of sensitivity, the mumblings in the audience after the talk were clear: “They’ll never make it.” Of course we now know that they did, and the 2016 announcement of the detection of gravitational waves led to a 2017 Nobel Prize for Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish. So it’s a great pleasure to have Kip Thorne himself as a guest on the podcast. Kip tells us a bit about he LIGO story, and offers some strong opinions about the Nobel Prize. But he’s had a long and colorful career, so we also talk about whether it’s possible to travel backward in time through a wormhole, and what his future movie plans are in the wake of the success of Interstellar.
Kip Thorne received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University, and is now the Richard Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at Caltech. Recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in general relativity, he has done important work on gravitational waves, black holes, wormholes, and relativistic stars. His role in helping found and guide the LIGO experiment was recognized with the Nobel Prize in 2017. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including a famously weighty textbook, Gravitation. He was executive producer of the 2014 film Interstellar, which was based on an initial concept by him and Lynda Obst. He’s been awarded too many prizes to list here, and has also been involved in a number of famous bets.
Видео Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar канала Sean Carroll
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll
I remember vividly hosting a colloquium speaker, about fifteen years ago, who talked about the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, which had just started taking data. Comparing where they were to where they needed to get to in terms of sensitivity, the mumblings in the audience after the talk were clear: “They’ll never make it.” Of course we now know that they did, and the 2016 announcement of the detection of gravitational waves led to a 2017 Nobel Prize for Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish. So it’s a great pleasure to have Kip Thorne himself as a guest on the podcast. Kip tells us a bit about he LIGO story, and offers some strong opinions about the Nobel Prize. But he’s had a long and colorful career, so we also talk about whether it’s possible to travel backward in time through a wormhole, and what his future movie plans are in the wake of the success of Interstellar.
Kip Thorne received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University, and is now the Richard Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at Caltech. Recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in general relativity, he has done important work on gravitational waves, black holes, wormholes, and relativistic stars. His role in helping found and guide the LIGO experiment was recognized with the Nobel Prize in 2017. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including a famously weighty textbook, Gravitation. He was executive producer of the 2014 film Interstellar, which was based on an initial concept by him and Lynda Obst. He’s been awarded too many prizes to list here, and has also been involved in a number of famous bets.
Видео Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar канала Sean Carroll
Показать
Комментарии отсутствуют
Информация о видео
Другие видео канала
The Warped Side of the Universe: Kip Thorne at Cardiff UniversityEpisode 31: Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory LandscapeBlack hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer OuelletteEpisode 36: David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-WorldsEpisode 15: David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the BrainBlack Holes and Holographic WorldsEpisode 28: Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the UniverseEpisode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the InternetEpisode 25: David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a SimulationEpisode 9: Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?Episode 27: Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of ScienceMindscape 92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System2018 Reines Lecture: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves by Kip ThorneMindscape 59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum MechanicsEpisode 23: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and EmpathyThe Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 6. SpacetimeMindscape 63 | Solo: Finding Gravity Within Quantum MechanicsEpisode 45: Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and HolographyEpisode 37: Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for DemocracyEpisode 51: Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information