The Warped Side of the Universe: Exploring Black Holes and Gravitational Waves through Art and Poetry

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Kip Thorne and Leah Halloran discuss their collaboration on a book that explores concepts such as black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves through poetry and paintings. They also touch on a scientific bet between Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking and reflect on Kip Thorne's upbringing and his mother's influence on his interest in astronomy.

Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist known for his pioneering work in astrophysics, and Lia Halloran, multi-award-winning artist and photographer, join to talk about their cosmic collaboration—a book of poetry and paintings called “The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves.”