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I don't know why you're being downvoted, so I'm going to give you a proper reply instead. Actually, the 2 things you noticed are not that hard to resolve: - T
by chton 12y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, so I'm going to give you a proper reply instead.
Actually, the 2 things you noticed are not that hard to resolve:
- The quantum data was most likely never going to get out of the black hole. They executed the plan on the off chance that TARS was able to figure out how to do it if he had the quantum data. It's not impossible that there is a way to do it, we just don't know it yet.
- Your concern about spaghettification is valid, but the risk of that happening also decreases with the size and mass of the black hole. A stellar mass black hole would rip you apart instantly, but around a supermassive black hole the gravity gradient is a lot gentler. It wouldn't be comfortable per sé, but definitely survivable. You would get ripped apart inside the event horizon, but you could cross it pretty safely.
There is actually a much bigger problem than the spaghettification: every black hole has a shell of light orbiting it at the event horizon. It's light that came in tangentially, and doesn't have enough speed to escape, but is fast enough to keep orbiting. In a black hole of considerable age (like the one in Interstellar), that shell would be very very energetic. I don't know if the ships they were in would be able to survive a blast of radiation that intense, let alone the human and robot inside.
I don't think it's fair to say that they went for emotion over science. They tried to do both, and wanted at least an inclination of accuracy from the start. That's laudable in itself, in a time where most wouldn't bother with that.
- lqdc13 12y agoWouldn't spaghettification happen anyway, but at a later point? Maybe everything after he fell in was a dream of his? This would actually make it much more interesting for me although many people probably wouldn't like this sort of ending.
- chton 12y agoIt would happen, but for a black hole massive enough, that point would be well inside the event horizon. We don't know how deep they actually went into the black hole, or even whether or not the 4D structure was inside the black hole or somewhere else entirely. Everything inside the event horizon is essentially unknown to us, both as scientists and as movie-goers, but the trip up to that point is survivable.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoThat was what bothered me, there would be a zone of high energy particles that you could not pass without severe damage to your ship and your tissues.
- ceejayoz 12y agoThey did show his ship being shredded by a bunch of glowing particles...