accurate scientifically? I was watching a video on YouTube about a wormhole and it referred to the movie Interstellar and I can't wait to watch the film. I just hope it's based on reasonable scientific theories.
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OT: Anyone watch the movie InterStellar? Are there certain sections of the movie that are
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It’s really good. Minimize your distractions ( kids, significant other, phone) while you watch or you will constantly have to rewind.
Interstellar and reasonable scientific theories should not be used as a comparison in this case.
There are visual representations of quantum theories and space-time instead of just math so of course there is plenty of artistic license. I found it entertaining and thought provoking.
Hollywood is "inspired" by factual events. Do not EVER confuse Hollywood with actual facts.
Some of them are wildly speculative scientific theories, but yeah they are still theories. The time slowing near super gravity is likely true.
It’s fiction of the utmost. Similar to Star Trek science fiction.
Yet no one I've ever discussed such with, particularly when trying to explain to them exactly what happened at the very first planet they visited in InterStellar, even REMOTELY agreed to such a theory/concept!!!
Just sayin'!!
It is a prediction by Einstein's Theory of Relativity but it has not been proven - and may never be proven. A black hole might also be a wormhole. You may come out at a different time as well as a different location.
Some of it is perfectly accurate, like when they land on this super dense planet and lose a whole lot of time relative to their crew member in space. To them it seems like minutes from their perspective, but to their crew member back on the ship it's like months/years. By the time they get back, it's like they are talking to somebody who was in covid isolation lockdown for years and his personality is not the same. Really cool scene and idea which is theoretically right on.
Overall it is a movie that takes liberties (like every movie...) and reaches to the unknowable. For example it is pretty clear that time travel is possible in theory, and it has been demonstrated by comparing 2 identical atomic clocks where one is in orbit around the Earth for some time and the other remains on Earth. The clock on Earth aged faster than the one in orbit by a fraction of a second, I think. But most people as of now think that time travel is only possible in the forward direction because entropy really does have to increase and going backward in time would decrease entropy, which would be impossible from the thermodynamic perspective (unless the time travel massively increased entropy somewhere else while reducing it for the traveler...). So I think the scene when they can observe and ultimately interact with the past would not be possible. But nobody knows what we will be able to do in the future and plenty of "impossible" things have happened before.
At the end of the day, it's a good movie that raises intriguing questions and at least made people care about physics for once. Just enjoy it, ignore negative comments and try to learn and be inspired.
Just wanted to remind people that ideas in science remain theories even if they would be considered as "proven" in other fields. For example, Gravity is a theory even though I think we'd all agree that there is enough evidence to consider it a proven fact.
But on the other hand, lots of scientific theories like string theory are still unproven. So it is a wide range between theories we are extremely confident in like gravity and those that we have no real confidence in as they are just elegant proposals. Some scientific theories seemed proven at one time, e.g. dinosaurs being most closely related to reptiles, only be shown untrue, that they are closely related to birds instead. For quite a while science believed there was a small planet between Mercury and the sun that they even named Vulcan. They didn't think there was any other way to explain certain inconsistencies in Mercury's orbit. But now we have other explanations and have ruled out a planet closer to the sun than Mercury. So we have to be careful throwing around the word "fact".
Muschamp and Frank Martin would find a way to disprove gravity, because that's just how they are.
All I know is, put those two in charge of gravity and in five minutes we'll all be floating around aimlessly.
It is a great movie and a lot of the science is accurate. Kip Thorne an astrophysicist at Cal Tech was a technical advisor. Christopher Nolan really tries to get his stuff right. Obviously there are some licenses taken for dramatic effect.
Well, it was a lot of theoretical science mingled with a heavy dose of artistic license.
Disaster is a ridiculous overstatement. It was nominated for over 30 awards and was a lot of fun to watch. Who cares if the science isn't real or accurate? It's a MOVIE. It's about the suspension of disbelief. Just have fun.
disagree. Physics aside, the human elements dealing with relationships, trust, separation, etc. were well presented.
From my point of view, Interstellar is one of those films that deserves to be watched, first of all not for the theories that the screenwriters presented to us there. Still, for the fact that it has a strong message: "Let's value time, because it is running so fast and we forget to spend it with those we love, and tomorrow we are already old and waiting for death". So we should not try to run after the stars and other things, but keep our feet on the ground and cherish what we have. I love watching movies, and I usually watch them on the yesmovies platform. It is more convenient, you can find them very quickly, and most importantly you do not have to pay anything. For me, a good movie is the best way to relax after a hard day's work.
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