Thursday 22 January 2015

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The Science of Interstellar

*contain spoiler*


I cannot say how fascinated i am by this movie, Interstellar but i can make sure that this movie probably is one of the greatest movie of this century. All the elements are just too great to be true, drama, graphic, special effect, story, and the most important is : the science behind it.

Since i was kid, i always fascinated by how amazing our universe is, and it is not rarely i have a lot of question about it, like : how does wormholes actually look alike? what happened if you entered the black holes? what is beyond the black holes? and so on. And Interstellar, answered it. I really cannot say how gratitude i am for this, specially when i found out that they use real equations.

 Yes, real equation, gentlemen. And it takes one year, ONE YEAR to produce the black hole audiences see in the film. This black hole:



And the man who worked with Einstein’s general relativity equations in this movie, the man who worked behind this is Kip Thorne (if you're interested, you might want to read his book that titled as 'The Science of Interstellar', a really mind blowing book and not just he explained gargantua, he also explained the wormhole, the disaster on earth, etc with a really understandable words) Thorne himself is an American theoretical physicist who has written academic books on general relativity, collaborated with Carl Sagan (oh!) and Stephen Hawking (Oooh!), and is one of the world’s leading experts on all things gravitational.

And if you think that black holes is invisible, then you are completely wrong. If you could look at a black hole at different angles, you would see a strange warping motion of the background starlight. This is because black holes warp the space around them, so what you’re seeing is an altered version of the real thing (similar to how you see a distorted image of an object when it’s immersed in water) Physicists know from Einstein’s general theory of relativity that a spinning black hole — like the one in the film — warps space differently than a stationary black hole. This process is called frame dragging (This is why if you notice carefully, the imagery of stars around the black holes looks like stretched and densed)

 

And did you know that from all of these equations Thorne did for interstellar actually discovered new physics? At first, the team thought there was a bug in their system, but Thorne soon realised it wasn’t a glitch, but a direct result of the calculations. This unexpected light halo offers scientists new insights into how light behaves around a spinning black hole.


So that is a really short explanation about the blackhole, i seriously wanted to talk about the wormhole & gargantua, but i haven't finished the book yet and i'm not in a really good condition right now (so, sorry, maybe soon!) if you have anything to added, shared, please comment, i would like to hear what you think of this movie & the science behind it.

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