Professor Kip Thorne's Public Lecture - A Century of Relativity

A Century of Relativity: from the Big Bang to Black Holes to Interstellar - Professor Kip Thorne From Caltech
NB: Some copyrighted film clips have been removed from this recording
Recorded at Monash University 22nd October 2015

[machomalli]

Einstein is the genius of all!! He is the real alpha in Science!! His idea of relativity always blew my mind away, he is really an unprecedented genius!!!

[johnccleary]

Love this guy! Incredible scientist and brilliant communicator....He is now getting his due accreditations for his marvellous work...truly Interstellar!

[unknownfromkashmir]

I was so deeply interested in Physics and astronomy. It was life dream to do something in the field. Kipp, Feynman, Einstein, s chandrashekhar were my heroes.
But, i was a little dyslexic, add, cognitively impaired. I did a different degree, easier one. And barely did it, extended. Not everybody gets to follow their dreams.

[luxiaoyun]

Great seminar! Very informative. I wish more people had watched it.

[whirledpeas]

Sure would be nice to have more Kips in my life

[hellojam]

Awesome that he was aware at the time that Gravitational Waves had been discovered at LIGO

[owen]

I think he's the best communicator of cosmology in the world, by a long way

[johnzapata]

Kip Thorne is the cosmologist I could listen to all day.

[serveandprotect]

This was AWESOME. :) MINDBLOWING but SIMPLE&CLEAR! Kip Thorne is AMAZING both as a Scienthist and as a man! :) Big Thanks for uploading! :) ;)

[markAD]

I’ve recently become interested or reinterested in black holes and the origins of the universe and possible interstellar travel. It’s amazing how sharp KT has remained at 80. Similar to Hawking surviving all those years with ALS and mind still sharp. Though maybe impossible still interstellar travel could possibly be broached centuries from now. Sadly humankind will probably be long gone before ever reaching that point or freedom of thought and pursuit of these ends will be extinguished. Still fascinating.

[damaliamarsi]

His books are awesome. He is awesome at explaining science.

[legendwarrior]

I feel Matthew McConaughey's voice modulation and dialogue delivery in the movie is similar to Professor Kip's own way of talking.... I felt this when the professor is saying "Aw righhttt" ... Definitely Nolan must have been mesmerized with the brilliance of the professor !!!!

[onemediuminmotion]

Electrons, like atoms, and black holes, and the universe as a whole, are horn toroidal fluid vortices (hence "point-particles") in/of the single, scale-uniform 'super-fluid' medium (I call it the SUM, a.k.a. "space-time") whose self-relative motion (a.k.a. "acceleration"; "momentum"; "push") as vortices and waves, comprises the evolving (hence "time") structure of the universe and all of its content "physical objects". Therefore we can say that the "material universe" is 'pure motion' (primarily point-radial in trajectory). The Einsteinian "time dilation/ length contraction" principle applies to the SUM itself, meaning that its self-relative motion ("acceleration" as 'motion relative to itself over time') is the mechanism by which the otherwise absolutely homogenous SUM 'self-differentiates' into the structural diversity of the observable universe, including our own bodies.
Also, therefore, not only do massive objects "curve spacetime", massive objects ARE "curved spacetime". The inflow of the SUM equals the point-radial outflow "expansion" of the SUM compression wavefront that is the surface of the mass-object (e.g. the Earth). Ergo the "gravitational (and smaller scale) field(s)". Since SUM fluid vortices, and every complex manifold thereof, including ourselves, constitute 'I/O devices' (inflow/outflow; input/output; positive/negative; "yin/yang"; etc.), we can say that the physical universe is comprised by an otherwise, absolutely continuous SUM "simulating" (by means of its self-differentiating, self-relative motion) a "discrete particle" - based "material universe" as "a universal self-organizing network of distributed I/O devices" which are manifested in terms of their inter-communication by means of the specific sequence of SUM 'vibrational acceleration waves' traveling at the "constant, finite, but asymptotic limit for all mass-objects" speed of light which they emit and absorb. We "human beings" are momentum routers ("pushers" of "things") in that network. In order for there to be a "push", there must be a "something else" to "push against". "Yin/Yang". Consider that every "sensation" - i.e. that you are "conscious" of - is comprised of a "push" (or vibrational series of "pushes") at some scale, at some amplitude, in some 'direction', as a "transfer of momentum"; a displacement of a mass object from its otherwise geodesic path. So the "material universe" is apparently a self-configuring momentum-routing circuit /network. "Consciousness" is 'a self-configuring momentum waveform' in/of the SUM.
P.S. "Dark matter" is the SUM itself concentrated around its "material" vortices, and "dark energy" is its larger-scale flow.
Call the Y axis "time", and the X axis "space". Let your eye be at 0 looking in the positive Y direction, and let any other detector be placed anywhere else along the X axis. The photon (or physical increment of "time") is propagating toward your eye, or other detector, as a spread-out 'shock wave' front, and collapsing point radially toward its detector, only being "detected" when the momentum (acceleration) pulse it is transferring through the SUM (scale-uniform medium, or "space-time") literally from its horn toroidal 'point' of origin is transferred to its corresponding destination point of detection.
The universe might be described as a 'self-calculating quantum computer'.

[palfers]

That Bulk would be very handy for interstellar travel.

[gabrieldunn]

Kip starts at 6:30 after introductions.

[graemej]

Great to see Kip Thorne in Australia. I would have thought that with the august presence of Prof Thorne here, that Monash Uni could have put a bit more effort into producing at least a worthwhile record of his visit, so that those on the internet could  view the graphics and movie clips that were presented in the format.

[abcde_fz]

Another great talk, Dr. Thorne. But I can't help it. That "general relativity is now ahhyup 100 years old, and ahhyuup well tested". It's the most unique form of that thing some people do while they're speaking, when every tenth word is "um" or "uh". But it's so unique and pronounced in his speech. I wonder what causes that type of pattern or habit?

[josephsmith]

Who knew we would have a actual picture of a black hole

[synergisminc.]

Now that we understand in intricate detail the mechanics of our multiverses, it should be evident that our humanity, likewise, is a multiverse of enormous complexity and requires mathematical tools and computations to synchronize (cohere) our biological-perceptions, our biological-emotions with non-biological (inorganic) policies, writings, institutions, languages and such other devices to comprehend the many varied outcomes every instance of relationships. The mathematics works because it is the language of relationships.

[iqtime]

I have another explanation that explain the intingalment and the black hole and why the electron. Attract to positive and. Explanation why the nutron behaviour .... And what is the gravity is ...