Christopher Nolan’s rule set for, 263
messaging Murph backward in time, 263–266, 265, 270–271, 270, 289–290, 297–298, 298
time warps, see time warps, Einstein’s law of; warped spacetime
time warps, Einstein’s law of, 35–37, 291
applications of, 47, 139, 162, 267
toxins, 108
truth, educated guess, and speculation in science, 30–34
tsunamis:
on Earth, 167, 274–275
on Miller’s planet, 166
universe, our:
overview of, 17–26, 277
laws that control it, 27–34; see also laws of physics
as a brane in a higher-dimensional bulk, 32, 187–188; see also branes
Viking spacecraft, 38–39
volcano’s rim, see critical orbit around a black hole
Vulcan, 203, 285
warped side of the universe, 154, 283; see also big-bang origin of our universe; black holes; geometrodynamics; gravitational waves; wormholes
warped spacetime, 35–41
space warps, 37–41
time warps, 35–37
underlies Einstein’s relativistic laws, 28–29
and tidal gravity, 41
whirling space, 48-49; see also black holes, whirl of space near
warping begets warping, 46–47
around black hole, precise depiction, 49
white dwarfs, 21–22
wormhole in Interstellar:
visual appearance, 145
visualization of, by Double Negative visual-effects team, 138–145
gravitational pull and time warping, 138–139
handles for its shape: radius, length, and lensing width, 139–140
influence of handles on its appearance, 140–144
gravitational lensing by, 142–145
discovering the wormhole by gravitational waves: my extrapolation, 146–151
bulk fields hold it open, in my interpretation, 218–219
see also wormholes
wormholes:
how they got their name, 127
mouths, 133
some history of research on, 128–129, 130–132
almost certainly do not occur naturally, 133–135
perhaps forbidden by laws of physics, 136–137
problem of holding them open, 129–130, 218, 218
problem of making them artificially, 135–136
in Contact (the movie), 130–132
Flamm’s wormhole (Einstein-Rosen bridge), 128–130
as seen from the bulk, 128, 129, 131
visualizing via gravitational lensing, 138–144
visual appearance, 132–133, 133, 141, 143, 145
microscopic wormholes (quantum foam), 134–135, 134, 224–225, 225, 287
see also wormhole in Interstellar
ALSO BY KIP THORNE
The Future of Spacetime (with Stephen W. Hawking, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, Alan Lightman, and Richard H. Price)
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm (with Richard H. Price and Douglas A. MacDonald)
Gravitation (with Charles W. Misner and John Archibald Wheeler)
Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse (with B. Kent Harrison, Masami Wakano, and John Archibald Wheeler)
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Text © Kip Thorne
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