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	The Warped Side of Our Universe by Kip Thorne Price $50.00 In Stock

Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran at the Harvard Science Center

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The Warped Side of Our Universe:
An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves

Date

Nov

Wednesday
November 8, 2023
6:00 PM ET
(Doors at 5:30PM)

Location

Harvard Science Center Hall C
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Tickets

$0.00 (Free RSVP Required)

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Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, and the Harvard Center for Astrophysics welcome Nobel Prize–winning physicist KIP THORNE and award-winning artist LIA HALLORAN for a discussion of their new book The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves.

Ticketing

There are two ticket options available for this event.

Free General Admission Ticket: Includes admission for one.

Book-Included Ticket: Includes admission for one and one hardcover copy of The Warped Side of Our Universe.

About The Warped Side of Our Universe

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.

Praise for The Warped Side of Our Universe

"What a beautiful alchemy of science and art! Full of playful exuberance, witty and wise, sweeping across the whole universe, yet lovingly tethered to Earth and the heart of what makes us human, this shape-shifting pageant of art, science and poetry lures one deep beneath its spellbinding waves, while time evaporates." - Diane Ackerman

"The cosmic forces at play in this singular work pull poetry from physicist Kip Thorne and push artist Lia Halloran to paint the invisible. Through the wormhole of their shared imagination, an armchair space cadet can journey to the Warped Side to be wowed." - Dava Sobel

Mask Policy

Masks are encouraged but not required for this event.

Kip Thorne

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. He lives in Pasadena, California.

Photo Credit: Christopher Michel

Lia Halloran

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. She lives with her wife and two children in Los Angeles, California.

Photo Credit: Adam Ottke

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