akhi Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway,Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which had as its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas, and Lynda Obst. Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. Plot : In the near future, crop blight has caused civilization to regress into a failing agrarian society. Former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) runs a farm with his family. Murphy (Mackenzie Foy), Cooper's 10-year-old daughter, believes her room is haunted by a poltergeist trying to communicate with her. They come across a malfunctioning Indian unmanned aerial vehicle that they salvage for spare parts. They soon discover that Murphy's "ghost" is an unknown intelligence sending coded messages usinggravitational waves, leaving binary coordinates in the dust that direct them to a secret NASA installation led by Professor John Brand (Michael Caine). Brand reveals that a wormhole, apparently created by an alien intelligence, has opened near Saturn and leads to new planets in another galaxy that may offer hope for survival. NASA's "Lazarus missions" have identified three potentially habitable worlds orbiting a supermassive black hole named Gargantua: Miller, Edmunds, and Mann, named after the astronauts who surveyed them. Brand recruits Cooper to pilot the spacecraft Endurance to recover the astronauts' data; if one of the planets is habitable, humanity will follow on space stations. Cooper's departure devastates Murphy, and they part on bad terms. On Endurance, Cooper joins Brand's daughter, biotechnologist Amelia (Anne Hathaway); scientists Romilly (David Gyasi) and Doyle (Wes Bentley); and robots TARS and CASE. They travel to Saturn and enter the wormhole, heading to Miller, but they discover that the planet is so close to Gargantua that it experiences severe gravitational time dilation: each hour on the surface is seven years on Earth. A team descends to the planet, which proves inhospitable as it is covered by a shallow ocean roiled by enormous tidal waves. As Amelia attempts to recover Miller's data, a wave hits, killing Doyle and delaying the shuttle's departure. When the others return to Endurance, 23 years have passed. On Earth, the adult Murphy (Jessica Chastain) is now a NASA scientist helping Brand with an equation that will enable NASA to launch the space stations via gravity. With his last breath, Brand admits he already solved the problem and determined the project is impossible. He concealed his findings to keep hope alive and put his faith in "Plan B": using frozen embryos aboard the Endurance to start humanity anew. However, Murphy concludes that Brand's equation could work with additional data from a black hole's singularity. Low on fuel, Endurance can only visit one more planet before returning to Earth. After a tense vote, the team selects Mann's planet, as Mann is still transmitting. However, they discover it is perpetually cold, covered with icy glaciers, and inhospitable. Mann (Matt Damon), who always knew Plan B was the mission's true goal, faked data about his planet's viability so Endurance would rescue him. Mann breaks Cooper's spacesuit visor and leaves him to die, and flees to Endurance on a shuttle; Romilly is killed by a bomb Mann set to protect his secret. Amelia rescues Cooper using the other cargo shuttle, and they arrive at Endurance in time to witness Mann docking improperly. The airlock explodes, killing Mann and causing serious damage, but Cooper uses the cargo shuttle to get Endurance under control. Nearly out of fuel, Cooper and Amelia plan to slingshot Endurance around Gargantua on a course toward Edmunds on the other side of the black hole while many years will pass on Earth. TARS and Cooper detach their shuttles into the black hole, sacrificing themselves to collect data on the singularity and to propel Amelia and CASE by dropping the ship's mass. They emerge in an extra-dimensional "tesseract", where time appears as a spatial dimension and portals show glimpses of Murphy's childhood bedroom at various times. Cooper realizes that the wormhole's creators are future humans transcending time and space, who have constructed the tesseract so he can communicate with Murphy as her "ghost" and save humanity. Using gravitational waves, Cooper encodes TARS's data on the singularity into the adult Murphy's watch, allowing her to solve Brand's equation and launch the space stations. Once the data is transmitted, the tesseract dissolves and Cooper finds himself traveling through the wormhole, coming into orbit around Saturn. He awakens aboard a NASA space station and reunites with the now elderly Murphy (Ellen Burstyn), who has led humanity's exodus. Satisfied that Cooper has kept his promise to one day come back, Murphy convinces Cooper to search for Amelia, who is implementing Plan B with CASE on Edmunds's desert, hospitable planet. Cooper and TARS, who was also rescued from space, steal a NASA shuttle to travel to Edmunds's Planet. Now the reason i posted it is because i want to debate about this! I find interstellar very exciting and very realistic.. the reason why i say realistic is.... imagine this "If i were to come to you in the 1700's and told you that we would be able to walk on the moon in the future, there would have been no way you would have believed me. On top of that people would have called me crazy!! Same way if we say all the things in interstellar might be true people wont believe that. but it will be possible in the near future as science is a never ending universe itself and we have just tapped the surface. I really want to hear the thoughts of other people as well! So shoot away!! XD Edited March 6, 2015 by akhi 1
Rayray Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 The technology aspect MIGHT be possible. However, the ones where the laws of physics is bent can't happen. 1. A wormhole is hypothetical. No one knows if it is true or not or if there is a possibility of traveling through it. Unless this is proven, everything in that movie falls apart. 2. If I understand it from the thing you put there, the blackhole is supermassive and according to Google, it spins. If that is the case, no planet would survive near it, due to tidal force. A black hole, and a supermassive and is spinning, would produce extreme tidal force to create Spaghettification, it would stretch out ANY matter as long as it is in the Event Horizon of the Black hole. I find it hard to believe tht 3 planets would survive there. If I understand correctly, even a normal black hole and a stationary one, the tidal force would still be too strong.
akhi Posted March 6, 2015 Author Report Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) The technology aspect MIGHT be possible. However, the ones where the laws of physics is bent can't happen. 1. A wormhole is hypothetical. No one knows if it is true or not or if there is a possibility of traveling through it. Unless this is proven, everything in that movie falls apart. 2. If I understand it from the thing you put there, the blackhole is supermassive and according to Google, it spins. If that is the case, no planet would survive near it, due to tidal force. A black hole, and a supermassive and is spinning, would produce extreme tidal force to create Spaghettification, it would stretch out ANY matter as long as it is in the Event Horizon of the Black hole. I find it hard to believe tht 3 planets would survive there. If I understand correctly, even a normal black hole and a stationary one, the tidal force would still be too strong. I get what your saying. Recent studies have proven there is a SMBH at the center of every galaxy. How have they gotten to know this? Well due to the revolution of stars around the SMBH and their orbits around it. It is obvious that the stars are revolving around the SMBH in their respective orbits. You can observe that the orbits of the stars are very similar to the ones our planets have around the sun. The closest star has the shortest orbit while the farthest has the biggest. This is how they figured out that there were black holes at the centers. So this could also be the case for planets but the size of stars. That would explain how they were able to withstand the tidal force of the black hole. It would only spagetify the objects or bodies in the event horizon but what if the planets revolving around the black hole have so much mass that its equal to our earth - sun ratio. That way the object will not be pulled into the event horizon at all. As for the wormhole we have to wait for sold evidence. Edited March 6, 2015 by akhi
plok123 Posted March 6, 2015 Report Posted March 6, 2015 Ok, you see, the movie is great, the imagination oo n of the writers are great, script is great,acting is great.. But the science about the black hole is pure theory. So it's not really realistic :P I'd pick whiplash over it :P
akhi Posted March 6, 2015 Author Report Posted March 6, 2015 "It is theoretical" Theories can be proved in the future when we understand science better. And black hole's do exist, it has been proved.
Rayray Posted March 7, 2015 Report Posted March 7, 2015 I get what your saying. Recent studies have proven there is a SMBH at the center of every galaxy. How have they gotten to know this? Well due to the revolution of stars around the SMBH and their orbits around it. It is obvious that the stars are revolving around the SMBH in their respective orbits. You can observe that the orbits of the stars are very similar to the ones our planets have around the sun. The closest star has the shortest orbit while the farthest has the biggest. This is how they figured out that there were black holes at the centers. So this could also be the case for planets but the size of stars. That would explain how they were able to withstand the tidal force of the black hole. It would only spagetify the objects or bodies in the event horizon but what if the planets revolving around the black hole have so much mass that its equal to our earth - sun ratio. That way the object will not be pulled into the event horizon at all. As for the wormhole we have to wait for sold evidence. Orbit has nothing to do with the mass. Jupiter's moon IO has constant volcanic eruptions due to Jupiter's tidal force to it. And Jupiter's gravitational pull is nowhere near a normal black hole. Thinking that the movie perceives the black hole to be massive and is spinning, no matter would withstand that. Also, consider how orbits are made. The reason our planet is not sucked into the sun is because way before the Earth was formed, it is already going around the sun. It was not stationary, hence it maintained that speed moving around the sun then it became the orbit. In short, for the planets to be formed around the black hole, they have to be spinning around it way before they begin to be made. However, as the movie shows the planets way too close to the black hole, I doubt any matter can actually start moving around it without being sucked if they are in the event horizon of the black hole. If they do not get spagghetified, as my example above regarding Jupiter, the tidal force would have a great effect to the matter around it. I am most certain it would destroy them in other ways. Lastly, most stars that orbit around a black hole is not neccesarily in the event horizon of the black hole. And not all of them spins(which gives a different thing compared to a stationary one). Bottomline is: the movie perceives the planets TOO CLOSE to the black hole, if it was a bit farther it would be a bit believable.
akhi Posted March 7, 2015 Author Report Posted March 7, 2015 Hmm ok i agree with you now. I understand what you mean. But the black holes at the center of the milky way is definitely spinning Now im jus asking... Could it be that the planets would be revolving around the black hole and will eventually collide with it?
Rayray Posted March 7, 2015 Report Posted March 7, 2015 Hmm ok i agree with you now. I understand what you mean. But the black holes at the center of the milky way is definitely spinning Now im jus asking... Could it be that the planets would be revolving around the black hole and will eventually collide with it? Not a chance unless the planets stop moving.
