The Warped Side of our Universe : : an Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves
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Black holes -- Wormholes and time machines -- Geometrodynamics : warped spacetime in a storm, and gravitational waves -- Probing the warped side with gravity waves -- Our vision.
"For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe's "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has relentlessly pursued his quest, inventing and constructing, in the process, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational wave observatory, to mediate our first encounters with the Warped Side. Thirteen years in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the extraordinary collaboration of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and award-winning painter Lia Halloran, and explores the very concepts that first set Thorne to task. Through verse and poetry, the authors address the oldest questions known to man: How did our universe begin? Can anything travel backward in time? How does the Warped Side impact the material side, the side that we humans see and feel? Featuring rich illustrations of stars--giant and dwarf, red and blue--and galaxies-large and small, diffuse and spiraled--and even a soaring Stephen Hawking anchored to his wheelchair, this stunning volume carries us into and through the dark side of the universe"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Year Published: 2023
Description: 255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm, unfolded to 24 x 53 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781631498541
1631498541
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Halloran, Lia, 1977-
SUBJECTS
Space and time -- Poetry.
Gravitational waves -- Poetry.
Black holes (Astronomy) -- Poetry.
Wormholes (Physics) -- Poetry.