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	Kip Thorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thorne was born in Logan, Utah, the son of professors D. Wynne Thorne and Alison C. Thorne.
		Thorne is currently interested in the origin of classical space and time from the quantum foam of quantum gravity theory.
		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 (1060 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.
		Thorne is the first person conducting scientific research on whether the laws of physics permit the existence of wormholes.
		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)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Time Travel \| PBS
		KIP THORNE: I was a little upset because he had the heroine in his novel traveling through a fl hole and I knew that you can't go into a fl hole and come out somewhere else.
		KIP THORNE: Let's suppose we begin at the size of Britain and we squeeze ourselves on down smaller and smaller, past the size of a human being, down to the size of an atom and on down to the size of an atomic nucleus.
		KIP THORNE: He got rather disturbed because Stephen is a defender of the establishment and he really believed that this really would be the mechanism to prevent you ever from making a time machine, and said they've not correctly read the tea-leaves of what quantum gravity is going to do.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2612time.html (6830 words)

	Caltech Astronomy : Kip Thorne's Research Interests
		However, Thorne also wears the hat of a theoretical physicist and asks such questions as: What is 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?
		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: 2007-11-07)
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	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)

	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.
	plus.maths.org /issue18/features/thorne (1837 words)

	Caltech physicist Kip Thorne to give public lecture
		Physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology will deliver a lecture on Friday, May 14, about two of the more captivating concepts in theoretical physics -- fl holes and the birth of the universe.
		Co-founded in 1984 by Thorne and Rainer Weiss, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor, LIGO is the largest project ever funded by the National Science Foundation.
		Thorne, Caltech's Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, has served as mentor and thesis adviser to many of the leading scientists working on general relativity.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/2004/thorne512.html (520 words)

	Kip Thorne - Online Gambling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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's primary areas of research include Einstein's general theory of relativity and astrophysics, with special interest in fl holes, wormholes, gravitons, and gravitational waves.
		In 1984, he cofounded the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project (the largest project ever funded by the NSF) to discern and measure any fluctuations between two or more 'static' points; such fluctuations would be evidence of gravitational waves, as calculations describe.
	www.community.online.gambling.name /wiki/index.php?title=Kip_Thorne (623 words)

	Encyclopedia Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Caltech Press Release, 4/28/2005, Dr. Kip Thorne
		PASADENA, Calif.--Kip Thorne, a physicist who is famed for his work on the cosmic consequences of relativity, is one of five winners of the 2005 Common Wealth Award.
		Thorne, who has been a faculty member at the California Institute of Technology since 1966, is currently the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics.
		Thorne is a cofounder of and intellectual force in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), an NSF-funded project to detect gravitational waves and use them to probe the "dark side" of the universe.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12683.html (490 words)

	Kipfest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Cornell News: Kip Thorne gives Parratt Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ITHACA, N.Y. -- 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 University on 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 /releases/Feb98/KipThorne.bpf.html (326 words)

	Amazon.com: The Future of Spacetime: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039332446X?v=glance (3108 words)

	Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: Kip S. Thorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For four decades, astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, 64, has been opening new windows on the universe for scientists and lay audiences alike.
		Thorne has been at the vanguard of researchers studying gravitational waves, hypothetical ripples in space produced by disturbances in the universe.
		Thorne co-authored the classic textbook, Gravitation, and wrote a bestseller for lay readers, Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy.
	www.sigmaxi.org /programs/prizes/common.thorne.shtml (184 words)

	Science Show - 24/10/98: Profile: Prof. Kip Thorne
		Professor Kip Thorne is one of the legends of today's physics, the father of wormholes, creative advisor to Carl Sagan and wagerer with Stephen Hawking.
		He talks about his childhood in the Rocky Mounds and his early ambition to be a snowplough driver, which ended when he discovered astronomy at the age of eight.
		He also talks about his work at Caltech, his bests on the possibilities of the laws of physics with various famous scientists and his belief that the biggest questions in physics lie ahead of us and that the really incredible mysteries are still to be solved.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s13542.htm (100 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy - Kip S. Thorne - Paperback
		Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers.
		His book is an odyssey in the way-cool implications of General Relativity, with the bizarre objects known as fl holes-- gravitationally collapsed stars, or still-mysterious relics of an early era in the universe at the centers of galaxies-- discussed in the most awe-inspiring and mind-stretching detail.
		While obviously some of this is speculative, Thorne draws from the solutions of the relativistic equations and quantum physics to provide an at-least plausible picture of what is happening deep down.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0393312763 (1303 words)

	Einstein Lecture: Kip Thorne
		The full title of this lecture is Einstein's General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005: Warped Spacetime, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Accelerating Universe.
		Kip Thorne is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech.
		Caltech's Einstein Centennial Lecture Series celebrates the centennial of Albert Einstein's "miracle year." During 1905, Einstein, at the age of 26, proved the existence and sizes of molecules, explained light as both particles and waves, and created the special theory of relativity, part of which links matter and energy in the revolutionary equation E=mc².
	events.caltech.edu /events/event-1862.html (242 words)

	Science: KIP THORNE: The Shaman of Space and Time@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KIP THORNE: The Shaman of Space and Time
		PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--A generation of physicists probing the extremes of gravity can trace its scientific heritage to one man: Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
		A recent symposium to mark Thorne's 60th birthday brought together nearly 200 experts on gravity at its strongest and strangest: the domains of fl holes, colliding neutron stars, and other exotic deep-space objects.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:37480623&refid=holomed_1 (206 words)

	Kip Thorne's Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kip Thorne's Statement on the Appointment of David Baltimore as Caltech President
		The faculty's presidential search committee is enthusiastic about the trustees' selection of David Baltimore as Caltech's new president.
		Caltech's faculty, students, staff, alumni, and friends will find him a fascinating person with whom to work and from whom to learn.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/KT_state.html (237 words)

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