{"id":2050,"date":"2007-12-08T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/08\/kip-thorne-interview\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T10:15:26","slug":"kip-thorne-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/08\/kip-thorne-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kip Thorne Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the Discover magazine web site looking for something else, I ran across this <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2007\/nov\/the-man-who-imagined-wormholes-and-schooled-hawking\">interview with Kip Thorne<\/a> about black holes, wormholes, LIGO, and Stephen Hawking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>It sounds like Hawking hasn&#8217;t done very well in his bets.<\/b><br \/>\nHe hasn&#8217;t won any of these bets yet. I think that characterizes the fact that he&#8217;s ready to go out on a limb and challenge people, as a way of trying to foster the forward movement of science.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are you still in contact professionally with Hawking?<\/b><br \/>\nHe and I have never written a paper together. His current focus is the birth of the <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/1996\/feb\/themediocreunive694\/\">universe<\/a>. Mine is probing its warped side. I will be going to Cambridge soon and spend a day with him, and we&#8217;ll be talking about physics and about life. He&#8217;s just finished writing a book for children called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGeorges-Secret-Universe-Stephen-Hawking%2Fdp%2F1416954627&#038;ei=IpQ0R8zZFJa2es23tY8P&#038;usg=AFQjCNHCjR22vKuVSSuoDDp1iE31FXMNGQ&#038;sig2=Bo2ztawzcdrcUf3eeRD3tA\"><i>George&#8217;s Secret Key to the Universe<\/i><\/a>. I&#8217;m eager to read it. It should contain gems of wisdom, not just for children but for adults and probably also for physicists like me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, there&#8217;s no mention of Jonathan Vos Post. I&#8217;m sure this is just an oversight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the Discover magazine web site looking for something else, I ran across this interview with Kip Thorne about black holes, wormholes, LIGO, and Stephen Hawking: It sounds like Hawking hasn&#8217;t done very well in his bets. He hasn&#8217;t won any of these bets yet. I think that characterizes the fact that he&#8217;s ready&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/08\/kip-thorne-interview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kip Thorne Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}