Books by Kip Thorne
“Kip Thorne was able to take what is typically an equation on a blackboard and give a visceral description of what it looks like in such a way that a filmmaker could then turn it into a picture. To me, that’s almost magical. It’s transforming what might initially seem like a preposterous idea into something visual and approachable. It’s stunning. And the pictures Thorne includes are gorgeous. In this book, he takes a lot from the CGI of the movie. You just flip through, find a beautiful picture that you can read about and understand what it means. You find out it’s not just an artist’s interpretation but an artist’s representation of really hard science.” Read more...
James Riordon, Science Writer
“This book is just plain fun. I said before that if somebody asked me for a book to learn about relativity, I probably wouldn’t pick Einstein’s: I would pick Kip Thorne’s.” Read more...
The Best Books on the Big Bang
Dan Hooper, Physicist
Interviews where books by Kip Thorne were recommended
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The First Three Minutes
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean M Carroll -
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin -
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A Brief History of Time
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Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip Thorne
The Best Books on the Big Bang, recommended by Dan Hooper
The Best Books on the Big Bang, recommended by Dan Hooper
Before Einstein, how the universe began was a question for theologians, not scientists. Over a century later, we know much more, but not enough to do more than guess at what happened at the moment of the Big Bang and immediately after. Astrophysicist Dan Hooper, author of At the Edge of Time—a book that explores dark energy, dark matter and other things we don’t yet understand—talks us through books about the Big Bang, and questions whether our entire understanding of the universe is about to be turned upside down.
The best books on Cosmology, recommended by Sean M Carroll
Theoretical cosmologist Sean Carroll recommends five books about space, time and the universe that even the science-shy can understand and enjoy
The best books on Gravity, recommended by James Riordon
Since the 17th century, we’ve been aware that the force that causes apples to fall from a tree is the same force that holds the planets in the sky, but we still don’t know everything there is to know about gravity, says James Riordon, a science writer at NASA and author of Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity. He picks his favourite books on gravity—from the equations you need to understand it to a funny book about what it’s like to live without it.
