by Thorne, Kip
15.2:Left: Kip Thorne. Right: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne
15.4:Left: Kip Thorne. Right: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne
16.1:Photos courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory
16.3:Courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory
16.4:Images produced by Robert McGehee, Ian MacCormack, Amin Nikbin, and Keara Soloway from a simulation by F. Foucart et al. (2011)
16.6:© Lia Halloran, www.liahalloran.com
16.7:Image courtesy Robert Owen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College
16.9:Figure courtesy SXS collaboration, www.black-holes.org
16.10:Steffen Richter
17.7:Top: © Xinhua/Xinhua Press/Corbis. Bottom: © AFLO/Nippon News/Corbis
17.8:NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
18.1:Data: Huan Yang, Aaron Zimmerman; image: Oliver James and Eugénie von Tunzelmann. © Warner Bros.
21.1:Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
21.2:Left: courtesy John Schwarz. Right: Steve Jennings/Getty Images
22.1:History of Science Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University
23.1:Image of Sun: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
23.4:Randall photo: © Tsar Fedorsky, 2014. Sundrum photo: Raman Sundrum, professor of theoretical physics, University of Maryland, College Park
24.2:NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/SDSS
24.3:Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
24.8:NASA/JPL
25.1:Melinda Sue Gordon. © Warner Bros.
25.4:ESA–GOCE High Level Processing Facility
25.7:Kip Thorne. © Warner Bros.
25.8:Melinda Sue Gordon. © Warner Bros.
26.1:Released into the public domain by PoorLeno
26.2:Photo courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory
26.3:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet
26.4:ChrisVanLennepPhoto/Shutterstock.com
26.6:© Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Kip Thorne
26.7:Left: © Matthew W. Choptuik 2000. Middle and right: © Kip Thorne
26.8:Photo by Irene Fertik 1997
26.9:© Lia Halloran, www.liahalloran.com
27.2:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.
27.4:Jeff Darling, www.diseno-art.com
27.5:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.
27.7:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.
27.9:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.
28.1:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.
28.4:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett
29.3:Tesseract: “Hypercube.” Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons—http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypercube.svg#mediaviewer/File:Hypercube.svg, adapted by Kip Thorne. Floating man: illustration by Cameron D. Bennett
29.4:Image of stars and galaxies: my distortion of Figure 2.1, which is courtesy NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (Racah Institute of Physics/The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team, and ESA. Shadow of floating man is adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett
29.5:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett. Girl adapted from illustration by Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com
29.6:Tesseract: “Hypercube.” Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons—http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypercube.svg#mediaviewer/File:Hypercube.svg, adapted by Kip Thorne. Floating man: illustration by Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com. Lines, arrows, and text: Kip Thorne
29.7:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com
29.9:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com
29.10:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com
29.11:© Christopher Nolan
29.13:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett
30.5:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Shadow of floating man is adapted from an illustration by Cameron D. Bennett
30.6:M. C. Escher’s Waterfall © 2014 The M. C. Escher Company–The Netherlands. All rights reserved
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INDEX OF PEOPLE
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MOVIE CHARACTERS
Arroway, Eleanor (in Contact), 130, 132, 246
Brand, Amelia, 13, 60, 99, 100, 170, 171, 173, 177, 178, 193, 237, 243–245, 247, 248, 261, 271, 272, 275
Brand, Professor, x, 14, 26, 32–33, 44, 112, 114–115, 146, 148, 150, 172, 173, 188, 192, 200–202, 209, 211–227, 229, 263, 269, 273, 286, 296
Case, 237, 245, 247
Cooper, 12, 32, 34, 35, 43, 50, 63, 68, 70, 71, 86, 100, 112, 115, 133, 139, 140, 157, 161, 169, 170, 174, 176, 193, 196, 199–201, 208, 211, 220, 223, 234, 237–238, 242–258, 260, 261, 263–266, 270–275, 288–290, 297
Doyle, 174
Mann, Dr., 177–179, 181, 222, 229
Murph, 14, 34–36, 193, 200, 202, 208, 212–213, 220–222, 255–257, 263, 264, 266, 270, 273–275, 290, 296
Romilly, 136, 170–173, 177, 178, 208, 223, 234, 284
TARS, 34, 60, 61, 193, 223, 242, 243–245, 247, 258, 266, 270, 273
REAL PEOPLE
Abbott, Edwin, 189, 190, 285, 305
Abrahams, Andrew M., 228
Adkins, Jess F., 293, 305
Al-Khalili, Jim, 283, 305
Baltimore, David, 105, 108–111
Barrow, John D., 277, 305
Bartusiak, Marcia, 283, 305
Baum, Richard, 285, 305
Baumgart, Anne, 294, 305
Begelman, Mitchell, 279, 280, 305
Belinsky, Vladimir, 230, 231
Berti, Emanuele, 309
Billings, Lee, 282, 305
Blandford, Roger, 91, 92, 281, 307
Bock, Jamie, 156
Bohr, Niels, 28
Bowen, Emanuel, 28
Brans, Carl, 286, 305
