Professor Kip Thorne - Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime

Recorded on the 21st October 2015

[xi]

After watching 2h of kip thorne I wanna say aaaaeh 😃

[realcygnus]

superb content ! My Man Kip has some celebrating to do

[ASCENSiON]

Those "let that sink in" pauses and stares are priceless.

[jamessommer]

It was said, in one of clips concerning the announcement, that the first indication came in September 2015 and they wanted to double check the findings.

[DrDeuteron]

I think LIGO deserved 3 prizes:
1) Seeing gravitational waves
2) detecting BH/BH and ns/ns etc mergers.
3) quantum no demolition technology and schrodingers eq with m = 40 kg, not m_e.
maybe another for geometrodynamics and or multi messenger.

[marioleon]

truly nice very nice the exposition of professor thorne a true aficionado for teaching us

[palfers]

At the time he gave this talk, he most likely knew about the successful LIGO detection. Pure poker.

[Tore_Lund]

So frame dragging is not simply two dimensional! Maybe "Spaghettification" should be renamed "Fusillification"?

[MostlyIC]

Kip, hope you're reading this, around minute 26 there is the diagram of red and blue lines-of-vortex, these lines intersect, does that mean that the differential vorticity that Alice measures changes as she re-orients herself relative to the BH, in one orientation she measures clockwise diff-vort and in another orientation she measures counter-clockwise ? if so then while we're using fluid mechanics terminology I'm having a hard time visualizing this as an actual fluid, so I'm guessing we're using fluid mechanics terminology in a metaphorical sense, or am I missing out on how to imagine particles of fluid flowing so as to create three perpendicular vortices ?

[alexpearson]

I guess the waves would be would be shifted in length because of the expanding universe? I cannot remember if he spoke on this?

[Joemama]

There is almost for sure an Ignoble prize in it for someone who does a population study of Kip's "aaahhhh" chirp utterances for spin/mass distribution... just sayin'.

[pacajalbert]

zdalo sa mi že v nejakom oceáne je taky oceán keď sa z neho napije tak sa hneď dopĺňa nikto tam není chorý

[ЕвгенийГанчук-гф]

Does a russian man introduce the professor? :)

[rubenanthonymartinez]

*The conceptual bending of space-time is the greatest blunder in scientific history. In fact it is greater than the fallacy of ptolemaic astronomy.*
Space is universally flat throughout the entire universe, that is the reason why light is measured to have same velocity in all moving or stationary frames. It is matter (Mass) the thing that it's affected by acceleration or gravity, which in turn changes material behavior, meaning, matters interaction with electromagnetic radiation.
Another way of stating it; acceleration alters the mass of the constituents of matter (protons and electrons) doing so also changes absorption and radiative characteristics of matter.
It is the clocks, all clocks, mechanical, atomic or otherwise, are all affected by this phenomena, because they're made of matter. Vibrational frequency the tick tock of the clocks is what is changed, slowed down, and not Time.

[WilhelminaBruno-fn]

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[randeepravesh]

goodness me! these eigen values, eigen vectors are everywhere...….

[Joemama]

42:48 one of many merger ring chirps coming out of Kip's mouth :)

[emilyw]

physicists didn't talk to mathamticans enough