Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: The Science of Interstellar with Science Advisor, Kip Thorne
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"Yeah, well, I'd put it a little differently; I saw it as a superb opportunity to use this film as a motivator and to get people interested or intrigued in science, and then there would be a bridge to the science through this book."
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"Yes, the Science of Interstellar: New York Times bestseller Kip Thorne with a foreword written by, of course, Christopher Nolan. It says spoiler alert: this book explains the fantastic climax and ending of 'Interstellar.'"
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"Oh, so they're on a subterranean island? You got to read it in my book! They are on--they're on an island, and this wave diffracts around the island; they hardly notice the island at all!"
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"This planet is distorted by tidal effects and it's swinging back and forth, it has not yet settled down to one face toward the planet, and that swinging back and forth is generating this wave. That's all in the book!"
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"The formula is in the book in this book! So you--so we don't have to go to your graduate textbook for that? Well, not for the answer!"
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"So this is the key thing that's not explicit, that you only understand if you read my book! You didn't read it carefully enough! No, I--I read a lot of it!"
The Science of Interstellar
Buy on Amazon"But you don't know that's what's happening until you read my book, by agreement between Chris and me! That's the only way anyone's ever going to know!"
Contact
Buy on Amazon"And he said that he wanted, uh, that he had written--he'd already written this book, the novel; it was already in page proofs, and he said, 'I've got this novel, it's in page proof; the publisher is not going to be happy if I change it!"
Gravitation
Buy on Amazon"In this book published in 1973, we went to press just after Ray Weiss wrote his seminal paper, I had not yet really studied that paper fully."