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just had my wife watch it and yea, that was the first thing I noticed, they really did a good job on the science of interstellar. When interstellar came out wi
by vxNsr 8y ago
just had my wife watch it and yea, that was the first thing I noticed, they really did a good job on the science of interstellar.
When interstellar came out wired did a full magazine spread on the movie, covering its science, how they came up with the story and what the director did to make sure it was believable. idk what it looks like online but I've kept the magazine.
- etatoby 8y agoThe visualization I liked the best in Interstellar was that of the wormhole, seen from the outside. (The "travel" through it was rubbish.) The thing would look like a mirror sphere, floating in the middle of space, reflecting the space around you. Except it would be the space on the other side of the wormhole, not that behind you, and the motion of the "mirrored" image would be opposite of that on a real mirror. (The apparent image on the wormhole's spherical surface would appear to move in your same direction, as you're moving around it, not in the opposite direction as it does on a spherical mirror.) It took me a while to reason about it and figure out that it was indeed what a wormhole would look like, if we could find or create one. https://youtu.be/f3ptQ0CPMmU https://youtu.be/f3ptQ0CPMmU
- codethief 8y agoRelevant paper: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.4916949?class=pdf https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.4916949?class=p...
- nikofeyn 8y agothis presentation by kip thorne is very detailed about the science behind the movie. it's one of the best presentations i have seen, and i have watched it multiple times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-N0tbwBB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-N0tbwBB4