Kip Thorne Quotes
American - Physicist Born: June 1, 1940

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.
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When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow.
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'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
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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.
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If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
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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.
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Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can go through them.
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