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    Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along...
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  • negative mass were generated in the early universe. Some physicists, such as Kip Thorne, have suggested how to make wormholes artificially. For a simplified notion...
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  • developed in 2007 and was originally set to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Kip Thorne, a Caltech theoretical physicist was an executive producer, acted as a...
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  • non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, with a foreword by Christopher Nolan. The book was initially published...
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  • of the giant with the neutron star. Such objects were hypothesized by Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow in 1977. In 2014, it was discovered that the star HV 2112...
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    of a friendly scientific wager between physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne in 1975, with Hawking hoping to lose. Hawking bet that it was not a black...
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    Technology (Caltech) in 1974. He worked with a friend on the faculty, Kip Thorne, and engaged him in a scientific wager about whether the X-ray source...
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    The Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet was a public bet on the outcome of the black hole information paradox made in 1997 by physics theorists Kip Thorne and...
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  • Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. Żytkow and Kip Thorne proposed a model for what is called the Thorne–Żytkow object, which is a star within another...
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    Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of...
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    a science-fiction feature based on the works of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who served as the film's executive producer. Christopher Nolan co-wrote...
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    Group. In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and...
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    NSF. In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and...
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  • 447. Thorne, Kip S. (1994). Black Holes and Time Warps. W. W. Norton. pp. 509–513. ISBN 0-393-31276-3. Echeverria, Fernando; Gunnar Klinkhammer; Kip Thorne...
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    the First John Archibald Wheeler Prize (2020), together with physicist Kip Thorne (Caltech) and Oxford University professor Roger Penrose. This award is...
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  • Einstein's Outrageous Legacy is a 1994 popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne. It provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of...
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    Galaxy (2014). In The Theory of Everything, he portrayed astrophysicist Kip Thorne. In 2015 he joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season...
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  • regions of the space-time. Among the co-authors of this 1990 paper were Kip Thorne, Mike Morris, and Ulvi Yurtsever, who in 1988 had stirred up renewed interest...
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    Spielberg. Based on the scientific theories of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole...
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  • 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was subsequently awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for their role in the direct detection of gravitational...
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    Richard Feynman, David Hill, Bei-Lok Hu, John R. Klauder, Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, William Unruh, Robert M. Wald, Katharine Way, and Arthur Wightman. Wheeler...
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  • (Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, William A. Fowler, Edward B. Lewis, and Kip Thorne), and 16 non-alumni professors (14 at the time of the award, not including...
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  • and named after the Roman arch, a concept proposed by Mike Morris and Kip Thorne in 1988 and named after physicist Tom Roman) is a configuration of wormholes...
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  • between the two. Physicists were initially skeptical of the model, with Kip Thorne saying that the community saw the model as "truly strange" at the time...
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  • University. He earned a PhD in physics from Caltech under the supervision of Kip Thorne. Among his nine published peer-reviewed papers, his most notable theoretical...
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    of LIGO, with a panel comprising Gabriela González, Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne, of LIGO, and France A. Córdova, the director of NSF. Barry Barish delivered...
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  • a main selection of Book-of-the-Month-Club. Sagan's friend physicist Kip Thorne gave Sagan ideas on the nature of wormholes when Sagan was developing...
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  • Prize "Kip S. Thorne wins the 2018 Lewis Thomas Prize". LIGO Laboratory News. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-08. Astrophysicist Kip Thorne to receive...
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    his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1972 as a student of Kip Thorne. Press was briefly an assistant professor at Caltech, then was an assistant...
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  • Theory of Everything; an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne; and an afterword by Lucy Hawking, the author's daughter. A portion of...
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