Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there. - Kip S. Thorne

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Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

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About Kip S. Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American physicist at the California Institute of Technology who specializes in the cosmological implications of the general theory of relativity.

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Birth Name: Kip Stephen Thorne
Alternative Names: Kip Thorne K.S. Thorne Dr. Kip Thorne

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