Analysis Of The Movie 'Interstellar'

Kip Thorne was born in Logan, Utah on June 1, 1940. His father was a professor at the Utah State University and his mother was a soil chemist and economist. Thorne’s parents raised their children in an academic environment and, because of this, two of Thorne’s four siblings are professors. Kip Thorne showed interest in science early on in his childhood. He attended a lecture about a solar system and later made his own model of the solar system with the help of his mother at the age of eight.
In 1962, Kip Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech and he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. After two years of studying after receiving his Ph.D., Thorne returned to Caltech as an Associate professor in 1967. Later on, he was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970. In 1981, he became The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, and in 1991, he became the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics.
In June 2009, Thorne resigned his Feynman Professorship in order to pursue a new career in writing, continued research, and film. His current writing project is a textbook on classical physics. He is writing the book with Roger Blandford and he is involved in the movie Interstellar. The movie is based on his research on black holes and time travel. The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan, the screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, it is produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Lynda Obst. The movie will be released on November 7, 2014. Thorne is an executive producer and with Lynda Obst he coauthored the material from which the movie developed. His current research is on the behaviors of curved spacetime and he uses computer simulations and analytical calculations.
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...oth these tools with numerical simulations, Thorne and colleagues could explore the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime, caused when spinning black holes collide with each other.
Thorne has certainly helped contribute to the world of science in collaborations with other physicists, but he has also been the mentor for 52 Ph.D. physicists. He is said to have been great in teaching because of his excitement and passion for the subject.
Thorne has been recognized for his work and in 1972, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1973, he got in the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1999, the American Philosophical Society elected him. He has also been recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999 as a foreign member. He has received many other awards and honors recognizing his skill and knowledge in the field of theoretical physics.