• Question: what is your view on kip thorne's ideas on blackholes and wormholes?

    Asked by anon-223551 to Sam, Valerio, Sreejita, Kate, Anastasia, Adam on 19 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-223535, anon-223067.
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      Sam Lawrence answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      I’m not sure what views you’re referring to. Kip Thorne did a lot of work for the movie “Interstellar”. From what I’ve heard, some of the physics was exaggerated to make the black holes appear prettier. However the exterior of the black hole was represented well. Black holes are a real phenomena. There is a growing field in physics that look at gravitational waves. These waves are essentially ripples in the “fabric” of space. When two black holes or neutron stars merge together, they cause detectable gravitational waves which propagate from where they are to us on Earth, just like a light-wave.

      Some physicists argue that Einstein’s equations of gravity allow for wormholes to exist, however they have not been observed just yet.

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