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Thorne Discusses Gravitational Waves, Future of Cosmic Research

11/27/2025

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Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, spoke at BYU on November 20, 2025, about gravitational waves from a black hole collision 1.3 billion years ago.
The detection was confirmed in 2015, validating Einstein's predictions.
Thorne, with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, received the 2017 Nobel Prize for their work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.
He expects future projects like Cosmic Explorer and LISA to challenge big-bang theory.

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Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, spoke at BYU on November 20, 2025, about gravitational waves from a black hole collision 1.3 billion years ago.
The detection was confirmed in 2015, validating Einstein's predictions.
Thorne, with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, received the 2017 Nobel Prize for their work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.
He expects future projects like Cosmic Explorer and LISA to challenge big-bang theory.