Time, he realized, must be warped by the masses of heavy bodies such as the Earth or a black hole, and that warping is responsible for gravity. He em… - Kip S. Thorne

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Time, he realized, must be warped by the masses of heavy bodies such as the Earth or a black hole, and that warping is responsible for gravity. He embodied this insight in what I like to call “Einstein’s law of time warps,” a precise mathematical formula that I describe qualitatively this way: 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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Einstein's law of time warps says that Everyting likes to live where it is going to age more slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

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