Portrait of Kip Thorne, astrophysicist
KIP THORNE
is a good friend of Hawking, whose famous theorem "black holes have no hair" (black holes have no hair) is well known. Hawking thus "demonstrated" that black holes are "necessarily smooth". He also showed that they "evaporate over time". Therefore, cosmology is full of mythic theorems in abundance. This does not prevent the general public from considering the existence of black holes as a given, since there are large, small, and giant ones. In February 2000, it was expected to detect the presence of a "gigantic black hole" at the center of our own galaxy, thanks to observations made possible by the recent positioning of a powerful X-ray telescope. Since the observation did not meet the expectations of astrophysicists, some concluded that it could be a "satiated black hole". But let's return to Kip Thorne. He caught the attention of his colleagues a few years ago by publishing in the famous journal Nature an article in which he considered the use of the "wormhole" version of the black hole ("wormholes") for interstellar travel. However, as everyone knows, wormholes are very unstable and tend to close as soon as they form. Therefore, their use made the realization of such travel problematic. Thorne therefore suggested in the paper to "stabilize" a wormhole by throwing "magnetic monopoles" into it.
The only problem is that no one knows what a magnetic monopole is, nor has anyone ever succeeded in demonstrating the existence of such objects.