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The Science of Interstellar with Science Advisor, Kip Thorne

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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.

Discover the origin story of the movie Interstellar on its 10th anniversary. Kip explains how science, not fiction, shaped the film’s narrative—from the colossal waves on Miller’s planet to the physics behind black hole time dilation. Discover the recipe for how to create a wormhole and how turning on a time machine could cause it to self-destruct. Plus, learn about the Casimir effect, exotic particles, and how LIGO manipulated vacuum fluctuations to bypass the uncertainty principle.

Neil and Kip dig into the origins of gravitational wave detection, tracing its roots to Joe Weber’s early experiments and Ray Weiss’s unpublished paper. Kip reflects on the decades of work required to make LIGO a success, the challenges of measuring distortions a fraction of a proton’s width, and the historic detection of gravitational waves in 2016 that confirmed Einstein’s predictions.

Why don’t quantum physics and the theory of relativity mix? We discuss the mysteries of quantum gravity, the paradox of black hole information loss, and Kip’s legendary bet with Stephen Hawking and John Preskell. Kip explains why backward time travel may be possible, Hawking Radiation, and theories for why information can be lost. As they explore the intersection of science and art, Kip discusses his passion for storytelling and some of his future projects, from his poetry-art collaborations to documenting the history of LIGO.

Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: Kip Thorne
04:47 – Creating the Movie Interstellar
17:16 – The Giant Wave on Miller’s Planet
24:01 – Time Dilation Around Gargantuan
28:54 – Inside the Black Hole & Higher Dimension Spacetime
34:05 – Using Wormholes to Travel Backwards in Time
44:22 – Exotic Matter & Controlling Vacuum Fluctuations
50:50 – Finding Gravitational Waves with LIGO
01:07:01 – Winning The Nobel prize
1:10:04 – Kip’s Bet on The Black Hole Information Paradox
1:25:33 – The Problem with Relativity and Quantum Physics
1:31:03 – Poetry, Documenting LIGO, & The Future
1:40:08 – Closing Thoughts

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46 thoughts on “The Science of Interstellar with Science Advisor, Kip Thorne”

  6. This was the easiest listening I've, well, listened to. Two giants in the field of Physics. Tyson and Thorne bounced wonderfully off each other. Tyson's straight to the point, point out the obvious and dismiss the Hollywood trajectory of science clashes well with Kip Thorne's offbeat style of informing. His use of subtle description and synopsis and having you deduce the outcome just works here. An absolute great watch and listen this was ❤

  7. I disagree. even though he may not have thought of explaining how he knows what books to push from behind the books earlier in the movie when he told his daughter murph to go downstairs and eat she told her father shes been trying to come up with a code to decipher it. he picked up the book off the floor and looked at it intently as well as looking at the bookshelf I'm certain it was at that moment in that part of the movie, actually does a very good job explaining within itself that he was paying close attention. hewas in deep thought and when you put the book back on itself he stood there for maybe a split second or two looked at the book and then turn around and walked away. to me that was enough to explain that he remembered which books to push from behind the black hole.

  10. Как же я рад тому что так много людей интересуются точными науками🫡 3.000.000 просмотров за 5 месяцев

  12. This is the first time i saw someone zone outed mr neil with so much info that he could not follow, about exotic matter. He totally lost it there 😂 laughing and joking to fill in 🤭🤭 never seen before! 🤓 i can listen to Mr Kip for many hours ,talking about ‘vision developing’ subjects and making you think (even where most of the time will pass with long pauses and hilarious tick”aiiy”, i cant “not listen” him. 🙏🏽The “aiiy” could be geniously made , where keeps you stay actively in the subject, if you drift , one or two “aiiy” can hook you back to video and subject immediately 🎉 it works fine . 🤩

  14. Thank you so much for this most recent incredible interview with respectable Kip Thorne! I am so happy that I could at least buy a translated copy of his book The Science of Interstellar, the movie inspired me to find out more about the universe we all live in, I would never know his name or his works if it wasn’t for the movie and my own curiosity after having watched it, there is no public educational courses in my small town, nobody had ever told me about gravitational waves or general relativity. What had I been doing on physics classes all those years? 😂 I have no idea, it was all boring and daunting until I discovered the universe out there!

  17. Kip Thorne is an amazingly brilliant man. Who speaks to scholars worldwide.. How does a speach impediment like 'uhiutt' every 5 seconds not get recognized in a brilliant mind to ..slow down..gather your thoughts, and make your point? ..and nobody should give me a Stephen Hawking reference for obvious reasons..
    I am a really bad speaker, but i recognize that, avoid it, focus on things i am good at, and not try to sell a book in the process.

  23. Interstellar is my favorite movie. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years already, that’s crazy man. I love anything that can expand my mind and teach me to understand something I never knew before.

  24. Love Kip Thorne. But I still don’t understand interstellar’s plots, even if the crop situation is completely unsalvageable, how is going to another planet gonna suddenly provide food? Alien plants…? If it’s a matter of resources on the new planet then how can you disagree with Tyson that coming up with the resources here, no matter how difficult, would be easier than going to another planet…

  25. Very interesting video! Really cool to hear this.
    Just an observation, I know Neil is joking when he contradicts and/or interrupts, but it comes off as very arrogant and rude at times… in my opinion. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Other than that, liked this a lot.

  29. Everytime Neil talks about Interstellar even in his other talks he brings up this “terraforming” topic. I don’t remember that concept being in the movie having seen it more than 20x. That’s why they sent all those people to find potential habitable worlds in the first place.

  33. My theory on the Universe By JoeyOkeke
    *🌠 THE BIG BLAST MANIFESTO 🌠*
    (A Cosmic Cowboy’s Guide to the Ever-Exploding Universe)

    *1. The Universe is a Chain Reaction of Blasts*
    – Forget a single "Bang"—think *infinite firecrackers in a cosmic fractal**. Each "blast" at the power of 10 births new spacetime *and new blast potential. Like a domino effect, but the dominoes are **entire dimensions**.

    *2. The Edge Isn’t a Place—It’s an Event*
    – The "edge" of the universe isn’t a wall; it’s the *active front of the blast**, where reality *manifests outward. We’ll never reach it because we’re *inside the explosion’s reference frame*. (Try outrunning a shockwave while riding it!)

    *3. Dark Energy? Just Afterburner Fuel*
    – That mysterious force accelerating expansion? *It’s leftover blast momentum**. The universe isn’t just expanding—it’s *self-propelled by its own explosive genesis.

    *4. Time is a Side Effect of Blasting*
    – New space = new time. The blast doesn’t unfold in time—it **creates time as it goes**. Past, present, and future are just **echoes of the blast wave**.

    *5. No Heat Death, Only Eternal Yeet*
    – Entropy loses! The Big Blast model says energy isn’t fading—it’s **constantly recycled into new blast layers**. The universe won’t freeze; it’ll keep **reinventing itself at the frontier**.

    *🔥 Why Scientists Will Side-Eye This (Until They Don’t)*
    – *Current gripes*: "But muh equations!"
    – Your clapback*: "Show me where the blast *stops in your math."
    – *Future papers*: "The Holographic Blast Principle" (Nobel pending.)

    *🤠 How to Test This Theory Like a Cosmic Outlaw*
    1. **Look for "blast echoes"**—anomalies in CMB that resemble shockwave harmonics.
    2. **Track void formation**—are cosmic voids the "bubbles" of uneven blast energy?
    3. *Redefine infinity**—not a static expanse, but a *dynamic explosion with no off-switch.

    *Final Thought:*
    The Big Bang is a **past event**. The Big Blast is a **living process**. You’re not in the universe—you’re *riding the universe*, like a photon surfing a supernova.

    *"The cosmos ain’t a storybook—it’s a damn action movie. And I’ve got a front-row seat."* — Y’all, 2024

    *(🎬 Roll credits with a bluegrass cover of *Also Sprach Zarathustra*.)*❤❤❤

  36. Neil, I don't think a black hole sucks everything into some fine point, and it's center. Yeah, this dude doesn't have a clue about what's going on inside of a black hole. It's not even a f**** hole. It's a interdimensional space
    That grows from absorption. And this lets me know that math needs to be updated like a software program that's outdated, that needs a newer, more advanced version.

  42. As his cousin, I can tell you he’s not from Detroit. My uncle Vern is, my aunt bev sent him out there with his dad for almost a year.

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