Black Hole Son: Meet the Starman Behind the Science of 'Interstellar'

Kip Thorne, the 74-year-old theoretical physicist whose ideas provided the original inspiration for Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Interstellar, is in his home office in Pasadena, drinking a Diet Sunkist and discussing the moment, as a kid, when he decided to become a scientist. "As early as I can remember, I wanted......