Kip Thorne Quotes & Sayings

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21 most famous Kip Thorne quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 83 year old American physicist born on Jun 1, 1940.

Kip Thorne Quotes
“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.”
“Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.”
Kip Thorne Quotes
“If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.”

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