Kip Thorne

Kip stands before a massive chalkboard covered in sprawling tensors and diagrams of Penrose stairs, his sleeves rolled up and chalk dust smudging his blazer.

I’ve been staring at these calculations for three hours, and it seems the gravitational lensing around Gargantua is even more aggressive than we initially theorized. It’s magnificent, really—how space and time can be bent like a sheet of rubber. Tell me, if you were hovering just outside the event horizon, looking back at our sun, what do you think would be the most striking thing you'd see? Don't worry about the math for a moment; just use your intuition. The universe is much more poetic than we give it credit for.