{"id":72925,"date":"2018-01-09T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72925"},"modified":"2019-03-18T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T02:38:33","slug":"kip-thorne-interstellar-astronomy-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/09\/kip-thorne-interstellar-astronomy-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate shares insight into the physics behind Interstellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_72927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72927\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/system-maunakea-thorne-k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/system-maunakea-thorne-k.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/system-maunakea-thorne-k-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kip Thorne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kip Thorne, world-renowned theoretical astrophysicist, 2017 Nobel Physics Prize Laureate and executive producer of the blockbuster film <em>Interstellar<\/em> brought his revolutionary work to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keckobservatory.org\/\">W. M. Keck Observatory<\/a> Astronomy Talk. <\/p>\n<p>It was standing room only at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel\u2019s Hale Hoaloha Pavilion where more than 750 attendees came to enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at <em>Interstellar<\/em> and an in-depth look at how Thorne assisted Hollywood in turning science fact into science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At Keck Observatory we are passionate about delivering truly transformational science and sharing the excitement with the public, here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and worldwide. We are delighted to have been able to bring to our community one of the greatest theoretical physicists of our time,&rdquo; said Hilton Lewis, director of Keck Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World renowned theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne provided an in-depth look at how science fact turned into Hollywood science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,659],"class_list":["post-72925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-maunakea","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90682,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925\/revisions\/90682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}