Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist known for his pioneering work in astrophysics, and Lia Halloran, multi-award-winning artist and photographer, join to talk about their cosmic collaboration—a book of poetry and paintings called “The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves.”

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Could we make something that wasn't just the science or the art, but it was like this
0:12.9	third thing where the text and the paintings really, they supported each other, like you
0:18.8	need one to have the other.
0:24.0	The theme of Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
0:31.2	Brayteen years Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
0:35.0	what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working
0:39.2	on.
0:40.5	On this episode, artist Leah Halloran and physicist Kip Thorne talk about the importance of trying
0:45.8	to visualize our universe.
0:48.0	The visualization is the thing that enables me to make leaps of insight and decide what
0:54.2	mathematical calculations to do.
0:56.9	Hey, listener, a quick favor.
0:59.2	We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just
1:02.9	a few minutes to respond.
1:04.7	Please visit survey.prx.org slash design matters to take the survey today.
1:10.9	That's survey.prx.org slash design matters.
1:15.0	Thanks.
1:17.0	Astrophysics has proved we had the big bang and there are black holes and undulating space
1:24.4	time, an all manner of nearly unimaginable phenomena.
1:30.4	What do these things look like?
1:33.0	We are such a visual species that for most of us without degrees in advanced math, these
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