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2025 Hamilton Lecture: 'My romance with the warped side of our universe'

Watch back the 2025 Hamilton Lecture, delivered by Professor Kip Thorne The Royal Irish Academy was honoured to host Nobel Laureate, Kip Thorne, as the 2025 Hamilton Speaker. Kip delivered a sold-out lecture in the Royal Irish Academy to mark this year's Hamilton Day celebrations. His lecture, 'My romance with the warped side of the universe: From black holes, gravitational waves, and quantum fluctuations to wormholes and Hollywood movies' described his ~50-year career exploring the warped side of our Universe: objects and phenomena made from warped spacetime, with emphasis on the roles that mathematics and the laws of physics have played. About the Speaker Kip Thorne was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, and is currently the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 1967 to 2009, he led a Caltech research group working in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, with emphasis on relativistic stars, black holes, and especially gravitational waves. Fifty three students received their PhD’s under his mentorship, and he mentored roughly sixty postdoctoral students. He co-authored the textbooks Gravitation (1973, with Charles Misner and John Archibald Wheeler) and Modern Classical Physics (2017, with Roger Blandford), and was sole author of Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy. Kip cofounded (with Rainer Weiss and Ronald Drever) the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project. LIGO - in the hands of a younger generation of physicists - made the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves arriving at Earth from the distant universe on September 14, 2015. For his contributions to LIGO and to gravitational wave research, Kip shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and other major awards. In 2009 Kip stepped down from his Caltech professorship to ramp up a new career at the interface between art and science. This new career has included, among other things, a recent book The Warped Side of our Universe, consisting of Kip’s poetry tightly integrated with paintings by Lia Halloran; also Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar (which sprang from a Treatment Kip co-authored, and for which he was Executive Producer and Science Advisor), and Kip’s book The Science of Interstellar. Kip is currently working with colleagues on a detailed history of LIGO. The Royal Irish Academy's Hamilton Day activities are kindly sponsored by Ibec. Our Hamilton Day Media Partners are the Irish Times.