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Thorne's teaching abilities really get ignored. He used to TA a session of first year physics at Caltech every year and he was amazing when I had him. To teach accelerating frames of he clambered onto a table, saying "Define a frame of reference centered on the tip of my nose", then tossed it gently forward as he stepped off. It was a perfectly intuitive demonstration and he got us to laugh in the process.

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I worked at Double Negative (the VFX company mentioned) during the production of Interstellar and had the pleasure of sitting in on an in-house lecture he did for the artists and R&D teams - incredibly good teaching skills. He was able to explain some very complex subjects in a 90 minute session.

For any non-scientists that are interested in this subject, he published a book about his work on the film that was quite interesting.

he gently tossed the tip of his nose?

Maybe he tossed the table.

That was missing an eraser.

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