Harvard Science Book Talk: Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran, "The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves"
Date and Time
Where | Science Center, Hall B: ORDER FREE TICKETS PLEASE NOTE: because of high demand, we're moving the event to Hall B! |
When | November 8, 2023 @6:00PM |
Organization/Sponsor | Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Division of Science, Harvard Library, and Harvard Book Store |
Speaker(s) | Kip Thorne (Caltech) Lia Halloran (Chapman University) moderated by Alan Lightman (MIT) |
Cost | Free admission |
Contact Info |
Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe’s “Warped Side”—objects and phenomena made from warped space and time, from colliding black holes and collapsing wormholes to twisting space vortices and down-cascading time.
Through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings, the authors explicate Thorne’s and colleagues’ astrophysical discoveries and speculations with an epic narrative that asks: How did the universe begin? Can anything travel backward in time? And what weird and marvelous phenomena inhabit the Warped Side?
Featuring more than 100 paintings, including a soaring Stephen Hawking, this one-of-a-kind volume, with its multiple gatefolds, takes us on an Odyssean voyage into and through the Warped Side of Our Universe.
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Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, is the author of the best-selling books Black Holes and Time Warps and The Science of Interstellar.
Lia Halloran, an award-winning artist who has exhibited widely in galleries and museums, is an associate professor and chair of the art department at Chapman University and represented by the gallery Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
Alan Lightman worked for many years as a theoretical physicist and is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He's the author of seven novels, a memoir, collections of essays, and several books on science, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, as well as The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award.
For more information and videos of Harvard Science Book Talks, see https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks.