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	Kip Thorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in the field of gravitation physics and astrophysics.
		Thorne also has investigated such topics as the quantum statistical mechanical origin of the entropy of a fl hole, and the entropy of a cosmological horizon in an inflationary model of the universe.
		Thorne is also known for his ability to convey the excitement and significance of discoveries in gravitation and astrophysics to both professional and lay audiences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kip_Thorne (701 words)

	Caltech Astronomy : Kip Thorne's Research Interests
		Thorne's research on gravitational radiation is aimed at helping make gravitational-wave astronomy a reality within the decade of the 1990's.
		As a tool to be used in both enterprises, astrophysics and theoretical physics, Thorne and his students and colleagues have developed an unusual approach, called the ``Membrane Paradigm'', to the theory of fl holes.
		As a theoretical physicist, Thorne is currently interested in the origin of classical space and time from the quantum foam of quantum gravity theory, and in the issue of whether the laws of physics permit space and time to be multiply connected (can there exist classical, traversible wormholes, and ``time machines''?).
	www.astro.caltech.edu /people/bluebook/thorne.html (291 words)

	Kip Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kip Thorne was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah.
		Thorne's contributions to the area of physics while utilizing the concepts of relativity are many and unmatched.
		Thorne has fully embraced the concepts of relativity and has used them successfully to determine the origins of the universe as well as the actual conditions just prior to the big bang.
	www.usd.edu /phys/courses/phys300/gallery/clark/thorne.html (682 words)

	Kip Thorne
		Kip Thorne is a world-class physicist, known for his prolific contributions in the field of gravitation physics, theoretical physics, and astrophysics.
		In 1973, Thorne coauthored the textbook Gravitation, from which most of the present generation of scientists have learned general relativity theory.
		Kip Thorne is also known for his ability to convey the excitement and significance of discoveries in gravitation and astrophysics to both professional and lay audiences.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ki/kip_thorne.html (598 words)

	Kip Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thorne's research has focused on Einstein's general theory of relativity and on astrophysics, with an emphasis on fl holes and gravitational waves.
		Thorne initiated modern research on whether the laws of physics permit the existence of wormholes.
		Thorne's landmark Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, written in 1994, has been published in six languages, and editions in Chinese, Italian, Czech, and Polish are in press.
	www.cgu.edu /print/1293.asp (358 words)

	Words Matter : Science Writing Symposium : Kip Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kip Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965.
		Thorne's research has focused on Einstein's general theory of relativity and on astrophysics, with emphasis on relativistic stars, fl holes and especially gravitational waves.
		Professor Thorne was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972, the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1999.
	www.wordsmatter.caltech.edu /thorne.html (292 words)

	Kip S. Thorne: Biographical Sketch
		After two years of postdoctoral study, Thorne returned to Caltech as an Associate professor in 1967, was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970, became The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor in 1981, and The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991.
		With James Hartle, Thorne derived from general relativity the laws of motion and precession of fl holes and other relativistic bodies, including the influence of the coupling of their multipole moments to the spacetime curvature of nearby objects.
		Thorne was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972, the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, the American Philosophical Society in 1999, and (as a foreign member) the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~kip/scripts/biosketch.html (671 words)

	Black hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		is Dirac's constant (the "reduced Planck constant"), k is the Boltzmann constant, G is the gravitational constant, c is the speed of light and S is the entropy.
		Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes and Time Warps, Norton, W. and Company, Inc. ISBN 0393312763.
		Thorne, Kip S.; Misner, Charles; Wheeler, John (1980).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_hole (4641 words)

	Catching waves with Kip Thorne
		Kip Thorne has been at the forefront of fl hole cosmology since the early 1960s, and currently heads one of the world's leading groups working in relativistic astrophysics.
		Thorne is looking forward to the coming decade, when the next generation of gravitational wave detectors will reveal these hitherto unseen cosmic cataclysms.
		Thorne is working with colleagues on a programme of gravity wave detection using a technique known as laser interferometry.
	pass.maths.org.uk /issue18/features/thorne (1837 words)

	Kip Thorne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thorne was born in (additional info and facts about Logan, Utah) Logan, Utah.
		He received his B.S. from (additional info and facts about Caltech) Caltech in 1962, and (An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded by a graduate school) Ph.D. from (A university in New Jersey) Princeton University in 1965.
		Professor in 1981, and the (United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)) Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991 (and still is as of 2005).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kip_thorne.htm (787 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kip Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Statistical mechanics is the application of statistics, which includes mathematical tools for dealing with large populations, to the field of mechanics, which is concerned with the motion of particles or objects when subjected to a force.
		Jump to: navigation, search In thermodynamics entropy S is an extensive quantity describing heat flowing between two bodies, where the corresponding intensive quantity is the temperature T. The SI unit of entropy is JÂ·K-1 (joule per kelvin), which is the same as the unit of heat capacity.
		In 1999, Dr. Thorne made some speculations on what the 21st century will find as the answers to the following questions: Jump to: navigation, search In calendars based on the Christian Era or Common Era, such as the Gregorian calendar, the 21st century is the current century, as of this writing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kip-Thorne (2328 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kip Thorne is the co-author (with John Wheeler and Charles Misner) of "Gravitation".
		Kip Thorne worked long on this book (originaly published in 1993), but the result is worth his and the readers effort.
		Thorne ponders on several of the ramifications fl holes have on our understanding of the universe, not in the least the possibility of time travel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0333639693 (661 words)

	Crunch Time
		Thirty-two years ago, when Thorne became one of the youngest full professors in the history of the California Institute of Technology, he was a longhair partial to funky pendants and bell bottoms.
		Thorne is the co-author of one of the only science textbooks long-lived enough to justify being called a classic.
		After the lecture, Thorne deconstructs his parlor trick in a way that would make sense to precious few people on the planet: "Well, I knew in order of magnitude that the size of the sun divided by the size it would have if it were a fl hole is about 100,000.
	www.lahabra.seniorhigh.net /pages/teachers/pages/math/KipThorne.htm (3635 words)

	Kip Thorne: Publications
		Kip S. Thorne, "The Membrane Paradigm and Black-Hole Thermodynamics," in Proceedings of the Yamada Conference XIV, eds.
		Kip S. Thorne, "The Membrane Paradigm for Black-Hole Astrophysics," in Gravitation in Astrophysics - Cargese 1986, ed.
		Thorne, "Basic Science and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics," Address at the dedication ceremony for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, 10 June 2002.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~kip/scripts/publications.html (7096 words)

	Black Holes & Time Warps- Kip Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For it is almost a quantum jump in science writing for laypeople, one that sets a challenge to all interested in the physics of the weird objects by nobly disdaining dumb-down tendencies like eliminating exponents and equations.
		But words and drawings remain the principal medium through which Thorne propagates the intellectual paths by which physicists attained their understanding of gravity's extremes.
		Not often can experts descend to popular understanding without being condescending; and Thorne's palpable eagerness to impart the concepts he helped develop as a world-class physicist at Caltech elevates this into a compelling human discovery as well as a revolution in science.
	www.spacemanbob.com /blackholes.htm (280 words)

	Kip thorne, - Kosmologika - Vetenskapsmännen - Kip Thorne
		Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in the field of gravitation physics and
		Kip Thorne delivered a lecture entitled "Probing the Universe and Black Holes with Gravitational Waves", while on Friday 23rd, also at 8pm, Prof.
		Kip Stephen Thorne är en teoretisk fysiker som föddes år 1940 i Logan, Utah, i en mormonfamilj.
	www.hispider.com /?q=kip+thorne (770 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Future of Spacetime
		Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech is best known to the general public for his 1988 wormhole "time machine" proposal, and indeed much of the book is taken up exploring the question, "is time travel possible?"
		Thorne notes that our grasp of basic physics is so crude that we can really only understand maybe 5% of the stuff that fills our universe -- the "normal" baryonic matter that makes up people, planets and stars.
		Thorne guesses that 35% of the universes's mass is in some unknown form of "cold dark matter", and the remaining 60% is some even more mysterious form of "dark energy" -- so there's certainly plenty of room left for discovery!
	www.sfsite.com /11a/fs139.htm (787 words)

	Kipfest
		Kip had been a driving force, or major contributor, to problems ranging from experimental approaches to gravity (e.g., the talks by Rai Weiss and Vladimir Braginsky) to wormholes (Eanna Flanagan's talk) and "real" astrophysics (talks by Roger Blandford and Anna Zytkow).
		To honor Kip Thorne's commitment to bringing exotic physics to non-scientists, five talks were presented on Saturday, June 3, by speakers with a gift for communicating the ideas of science.
		The group was four of Kip's former graduate students (Sandor Kovacs, Richard Price, Bernie Schutz and Cliff Will) singing, in "the average key of B and a quarter flat," about their "Wise Old Advisor from Pasadena" to a Jan and Dean song from 1964.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /mog/mog16/node11.html (667 words)

	Time travel for beginners
		In the 1980s, though, Kip Thorne, of CalTech (one of the world's leading experts in the general theory of relativity), and his colleagues set out to prove once and for all that such nonsense wasn't really allowed by Einstein's equations.
		This is the latest twist in a story that began in the late 1980s, when Kip Thorne and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology suggested that although there might be considerable practical difficulties in constructing a time machine, there is nothing in the laws of physics as understood at present to forbid this.
		Thorne was sufficiently intrigued to set two of his PhD students, Michael Morris and Ulvi Yurtsever, the task of working out some details of the physical behaviour of what the relativists know as "wormholes".
	epunix.biols.susx.ac.uk /home/John_Gribbin/Time_Travel.html (8295 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) (Commonwealth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thorne's writing style is very accessible and down to earth, as he explains relativity, fl holes, quantum mechanics, and even time warps.
		Also, beware of Thorne's suspiciously enthusiastic endorsements of gravitational wave research in chapter 10, as this is his own field of research, and I suspect he's trying to promote the need for funding.
		Thorne pulls no punches in laying out the reasoning behind some of the most abstruse physical and astrophysical notions ever conceived, and he is meticulous in distinguishing between what we know and what we don't, between theory and observation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393312763?v=glance (2412 words)

	Kip S. Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is clearly quite a character, involved in smuggling manuscripts out of the Soviet Union to be published in the West, and in several bets made about then current questions about the detailed nature of fl holes.
		He is also effectively responsible for the discovery of the possibility that if a stable wormhole could be created and manipulated in a pecific manner without destroying it, then it would form a type of time machine.
		(The mass media coverage of this result included a photograph of Thorne "doing physics in the nude".) As can be expected, his account of fl hole research includes much that is about the personalities of those involved; illustrations include private snap shots of dinner parties.
	www.geocities.com /smcleish/rev0590.html (393 words)

	Kipfest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A three day symposium was held at Caltech from Thursday, June 1, 2000 to Saturday, June 3, 2000, on the occasion of Kip Thorne's 60th birthday to honor his long and distinguished career in physics, and
		Kip was presented with a five-volume bound set of his publications, and with an academic ``family tree'', listing all his students, and their students, down to the third generation.
		The speakers were Stephen Hawking, Timothy Ferris, Alan Lightman, and Igor Novikov and Kip himself.
	wugrav.wustl.edu /People/CLIFF/KipFest/kipmain.html (233 words)

	Amazon.com: The Future of Spacetime: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday was celebrated in essay form by fellow relativists interested not only in space-time but also in explaining it to nonscientists.
		Kip Thorne has proposed Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory in 1984 and is a cofounder of this project.
		Thorne reluctantly concludes that things really don't look very good for wormholes, especially for time travel -- though he does leave a tiny ray of hope for some super-advanced future civilization to make wormholes for space travel [note 4].
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039332446X?v=glance (3132 words)

	Noted physicist Kip Thorne to give Parratt lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kip Thorne, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, will give the first Lyman Parratt Lecture in Physics at Cornell Feb. 16.
		Thorne, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is best known for his work on gravitational radiation, fl holes, neutron stars and the nature of space, time and gravity.
		A fund to support the lecture was established by family, friends and colleagues after his death in 1995.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/98/2.12.98/Parratt.html (307 words)

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