The Warped Side of Our Universe : An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves

Author: Thorne, Kip

Literature & literary studies

Published on 31 October 2023 by WW Norton & Co (Liveright Publishing Corporation) in the United States.

Hardback | 240 pages, Full-colour paintings throughout; 4 gatefolds
236 x 285 x 35 | 1654g

Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe’s “Warped Side”—objects and phenomena made from warped space and time, from colliding black holes and collapsing wormholes to twisting space vortices and down-cascading time. Through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings, the authors explicate Thorne’s and colleagues’ astrophysical discoveries and speculations, with an epic narrative that asks: How did the universe begin? Can anything travel backwards in time? And what weird and marvellous phenomena inhabit the Warped Side? Featuring more than 100 paintings, including a soaring Stephen Hawking, this one-of-a-kind volume, with its multiple gatefolds, takes us on an Odyssean voyage into and through The Warped Side of Our Universe.