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Nov 2024
1h 41m

A Cosmic Conversation with Kip Thorne

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
About this episode

Could you travel back in time through a wormhole? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne to reflect on discovering gravitational waves with LIGO, the science in the movie Interstellar, black holes, and many more mysteries still yet to be answered.

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