Physicist Jim Al-Khalili of the University of Surrey and a member of FQxI's Scientific Advisory Council recently recorded a conversation with Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, in front of an audience of 400 people at the Royal Institution in London. Thorne won the Nobel prize in physics for his work on LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves. He also worked with Christopher Nolan on the movie Interstellar. An edited version of the conversation was broadcast as part of Al-Khalili's BBC series The Life Scientific. This is the full version.

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