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Every book Kip Thorne recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Kip Thorne
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.
Discussed“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!”
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Gravitation
Gravitation by Charles W.
Discussed“and so in this book which was published in 1973 we went to press just after Ray Weiss wrote his seminal paper I had not yet uh really studied that paper fully uh but I I just knew uh that this was crazy and so it describes in a few words Ray's idea in here”
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Books Kip Thorne wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Science of Interstellar with Science Advisor, Kip Thorne | StarTalk Radio | 2024-12-03 | 2 |
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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.”
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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!”
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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!”
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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!”
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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!”
Plugged The Science of Interstellar
“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!”
Plugged Gravitation
“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.”