This Article was about how accurate Interstellar was to actual science. The Article starts out by discussing the agent of destruction in the film which is Blight. This exists in the real world but is not nearly as threatening as it is in the film. There seems to be a trend in films and video games where they take something that exists in real life that is not that dangerous at all, and expanding on it in a what if this was was dangerous in the future scenario. This is present in the 2013 video game "The last of us" where the zombie virus in that game does exist in real life but only in ants. This trend is a pretty cool concept and I can see it being used more in the future. But back to the article. Next they talk about how they represented black holes in the movie. Before Interstellar, black holes have never really been shown as they would actually appear in films. For this movie they hired scientists like Kip (I think that's his name) help them. They used Einsteins and other ideas to make an accurate depiction which I think looks pretty cool. Next the article talks about how fast face travel would actually happen realistically. In the movie there is a wormhole that they go through. While it would take us humans forever to actually invent this type of technology it is possible. Lastly they talk about the dangers of black holes. In the movie they play with the idea that if you where to travel through a black hole time would behave differently. While you wouldn't notice any difference. Time would mov much slower than for the rest of the universe. And if you returned afterwards you could only have been gone for a short while while many years have passed.
I thought this article was pretty interesting. I have not yet seen the movie but I may in the future. I appreciate Nolan's (as well as everyone else who worked on the film) respect for science and being accurate.
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