[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fv0TRyMB1vsKtvSr1Rv14n6wCHOG0MT2ajEddGR3Cd_Y":3,"$fVz4MlklfWRUBHE3S7h4QjbM2lM6BArABIYhuX8dbAAY":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},190618,"Kip Thorne","K",44,null,"kip-thorne",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":77},[14,22,28,35,41,47,53,59,65,71],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},3779136,"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.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},3779132,"The jury is not in, so we just don't know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That's sad, that's unfortunate, but that's the direction in which things are pointing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":34},3779127,"My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nKip Thorne, a renowned American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, likely uttered these words during his work on the 1984 film \"Interstellar,\" which he co-wrote with Jonathan Nolan. At that time, Thorne was deeply invested in understanding the mysteries of black holes and their role in the universe. His passion for this topic led him to collaborate with Christopher Nolan and the film's production team to bring the complexities of wormhole travel and gravitational forces to the big screen.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nWhat lies beneath Thorne's statement is a paradoxical approach to scientific inquiry. On one hand, he is driven by a passion to understand the intricacies of warped space-time, which might suggest a focus on theoretical elegance and beauty. However, the \"ideal venue\" for this understanding is black-hole collisions, which implies a willingness to engage with the most extreme and chaotic phenomena in the universe. This tension between the pursuit of theoretical elegance and the acceptance of chaos and unpredictability is a key aspect of Thorne's approach.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply Thorne's mindset to your own work, consider embracing the tension between theoretical rigor and the messiness of real-world phenomena. By acknowledging the complexity and unpredictability of your field, you can develop a more nuanced understanding of the problems you're trying to solve and approach them with a more open and adaptable mindset. This might involve being willing to challenge your own assumptions and engage with seemingly intractable or chaotic aspects of your work.",{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3779120,"I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":9},3779119,"We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing the birth of the universe with this. The so-called 'inflationary era' of the universe. We'll be probing the birth of the fundamental forces and how they came into being.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":9},3779111,"If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":9},3779099,"The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics can be expressed without the aid of coordinates; and, indeed, their coordinate-free expressions are generally elegant and exceedingly powerful.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":62,"source":63,"quote_tag":64,"commentary":9},3779089,"I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":68,"source":69,"quote_tag":70,"commentary":9},3779081,"I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":9},3779073,"I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":78,"totalPages":79,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":80},1,5,10]