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

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 backwards in time? And what weird and marvellous 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.

About the author

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.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.

Product details

• Authors: Lia Halloran, Kip Thome, Kip Thorne, Thorne Kip
• Assisted by: Lia Halloran (Illustration), Lia (Chapman University) Halloran (Illustration)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781631498541
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-854-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 33 mm x 281 mm
• Weight: 1660 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works; POETRY / General, Poetry, popular science, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics, Poetry / Poems