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What claim did Thorne make? What evidence supported his claim?
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I’m missing the context — which “Thorne” and which claim do you mean? If you can paste the sentence or tell me the article/book/lecture, I’ll answer precisely.
To help, here are a few common possibilities (brief):
- Kip Thorne (physicist) — claim: gravitational waves predicted by general relativity can be directly detected. Evidence: the LIGO detections beginning with GW150914 (2015) matched Thorne’s predictions for waveforms from binary black-hole/ neutron-star mergers.
- Kip Thorne — claim: certain traversable wormholes or exotic spacetimes can (in principle) permit time travel under general relativity. Evidence: theoretical solutions and calculations showing metrics that allow closed timelike curves — but no experimental/observational evidence; it’s a theoretical result constrained by energy-condition issues.
- Kip Thorne — claim (in consulting on the film Interstellar): the visual appearance of an accreting black hole would show strong gravitational lensing and a warped accretion-disc image. Evidence: detailed ray-tracing simulations he commissioned; more generally, observations such as the Event Horizon Telescope image of M87* (2019) are consistent with strong-lensing predictions.
If you tell me which one you mean (or paste the passage), I’ll give a focused answer listing the claim and the supporting evidence.
To help, here are a few common possibilities (brief):
- Kip Thorne (physicist) — claim: gravitational waves predicted by general relativity can be directly detected. Evidence: the LIGO detections beginning with GW150914 (2015) matched Thorne’s predictions for waveforms from binary black-hole/ neutron-star mergers.
- Kip Thorne — claim: certain traversable wormholes or exotic spacetimes can (in principle) permit time travel under general relativity. Evidence: theoretical solutions and calculations showing metrics that allow closed timelike curves — but no experimental/observational evidence; it’s a theoretical result constrained by energy-condition issues.
- Kip Thorne — claim (in consulting on the film Interstellar): the visual appearance of an accreting black hole would show strong gravitational lensing and a warped accretion-disc image. Evidence: detailed ray-tracing simulations he commissioned; more generally, observations such as the Event Horizon Telescope image of M87* (2019) are consistent with strong-lensing predictions.
If you tell me which one you mean (or paste the passage), I’ll give a focused answer listing the claim and the supporting evidence.
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