From Black Holes to Brush Strokes: Unveiling the Universe with Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran [Ep. 397]

What do you get when you combine the minds of a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and an outstanding artist?

The Warped Side of Our Universe by Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran! A remarkable book that explores Thorne's astrophysical discoveries through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings.

Today, Kip and Lia will guide us through the process of creating their wonderful book. Tune in!

Kip Thorne is a theoretical physicist known for his contributions to gravitational physics and astrophysics. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

Lia Halloran is an award-winning painter and photographer. She received her BFA at UCLA and her MFA in Painting in Printmaking at Yale. She serves as Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Painting and Drawing Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA.

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Key Takeaways:

00:00:00 Judging a book by its cover
00:04:36 What would Stephen Hawking make of the LIGO detector?
00:07:54 The color choices in the book
00:11:46 The origin story of their collaboration
00:21:23 The two cultures and the scientific revolution
00:33:06 Teaching arts and physics
00:44:32 Fermilab and the intersection of arts and science
00:51:00 Is the Big Bang too good to be true?
00:59:35 The criticisms of LIGO
01:08:06 What motivates Kip and Lia?
01:14:31 Kip’s bet with Stephen Hawking
01:15:44 Can human beings be replaced?
01:21:18 Kip’s book Gravitation
01:25:11 The most magical human invention
01:29:04 What were Kip and Lia wrong about?
01:33:55 Advice for their younger selves
01:37:16 Outro

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[roelrovira]

An important candid online presentation of Art and Science Reunification after centuries of separation. As a visual artist and scientist myself, It is very uplifting to know that finally there is a podcast/show like this one. A big THANK YOU to you Brian, Lia and Kip for coming together and enlightening the general public that may change the perception about Art and Science being separate and irreconcilable disciples. In my home country Singapore, we treat Art and Science as One, as evident in our most modern ArtScience Museum.

[edcunion]

Kip Thorne succinctly nails it with his Leonardo Da Vinci example on the non-dichotomy of art & science. Relativity was a thought experiment dream before being experimentally tested, any video with Kip raises its thoughtful pedigree.

So many observations & query for Kip, have a list of 20-25, but will post just one observation and a couple-three queries here-

The picture on the book cover of a black hole as a tornadic gravity sink is cool, no pun intended vis a vis its near absolute zero temperature. The first query- would not that tornado look the same from all view angles as a black near-perfect spheroid perhaps with a photosphere, without the funnel shape as seen in Interstellar?

The second query- are black holes rather near-perfect spacetime capacitors, even rotating Kerr types, that only very so slowly leak that spacetime capacitance charge or stored randomized maximal entropy back out into the universe as Hawking radiation, over effectively timeless eons to us hominids? Unless said black hole inspirals into another hole before it is fully discharged and releases a lot but not all of its energy quickly upon merger?

[aguma]

Un verdadero gozo para el intelecto ha sido esta agradable entrevista 👌👏👏👏

[belstar]

I don't think I would have an interest in science if it wasn't for the great drawings in the books I read in my childhood.

[jasonbrady]

If at the moment the acceleration of gravity exceeds the speed of light. The sphere of the blackhole inverts and becomes a torus. Then matter automatically at that moment resets its energy to the size of the torus. There's mass acceleration right up to crossing the event horizon, ounce crossed, everythings all matter quarcks.. are calibrated to zero some energy of the blackhole, and basically set free one the surface of the torus. As the torys grows it continually recalibrates the matter with or information within ...

Wouldn't it stabilize the blackhole structure? Things like the no hair theorems. Simply cannot see the torus past the spherical horizon.

[johnjoseph]

another brilliant episode. thank you Brian

[arthurburlington]

I find myself painting alot of similar interests. I'm no Kip but it was great stumbling onto this interview

[karlgoebeler]

Trying to describe a "High Energy Event" (Multiple events starting in 1981 with eyewitnesses) Talk to the "Tribe"

[Hooves]

ok, my craziest idea. alien's harvest blackholes once they become ripe and spacetime snaps back

[karlgoebeler]

Temporal causality. Random events whould "Blend" into the general flow of time. Marching to the "Story" (In this situation will (Probably)) will magnify a counter-productive outcome. Let the "Future" eat breed. BAD example. Time "War"

[TaimazHavadar]

چه تفاهم جالبی 👌
ما هم در دوران راهنمایی تلسکوپ در اختیار داشتیم
و با تلسکوپ دوستم به اسمون نگاه میکردیم .
ماه خیلی باحال و زیبا بود👍
و تلسکوپش رو پدرش از اسباب بازی فروشی خریده بود 🤣
منم دایی ام برام میکروسکوپ خریده بودو با همون دوستم عنکبوت و مورچه و برگ درخت و غیره را میگذاشتیم بین لام و نگاه میکزدیم 👌
بیشتر دنبال کیر و خایه ی حشرات بودیم 🤣
درآن زمان ،من تازه با داوکینز آشنا شده بودم ودیدگاه های تکاملی اش 😁
لابد فکر کردید که من در بیولوژی و فیزیک فضایی ،هیچ تحقیقاتی نداشتم نه؟؟؟!!
من در هزاره ی پیشین این تحقیقات رو داشتم..
و هزار سال خیلی زایاده هااااا خیلیییی
یک سری هنوز میمون بودند در آن زمان و یک سری هم هنوز میمون مانده اند
جدشان اخر میمون بوده 🙉🙉

[TaimazHavadar]

موفق باشید عزیزان 💚💚
تشنه های حقیقت ودانش در کربلای منظومه ی شمسی هستید شماها🙏
راستی من یک تعدادایده ی جالب برای طراحی و نقاشی دارم که شاید خوشتان بیاید
شاید هم بگویید این کسشعرها چیه پیدا کردی؟🤣🤣
میفرستم براتون
ولی تاریخ نمیدهم بخشید 🙏

[danielmccarthyy]

I am not interested in hearing from yet another soft-in-the-head artist.

[proteusaugustus]

That's why a "black hole" can compress so much quantum energy(Qe) - universal quantum field is compressable at very high quantum field densities and is an infinite sink for Qe - EMR. 🎓🪖⚖️🎓⚗️🔬🎵:🍀✝️🇺🇲