Its proximity to the black hole also causes an extreme time dilation, where one hour on the distant planet equals 7 years on Earth. The first planet they land on is close to a supermassive black hole, dubbed Gargantuan, whose gravitational pull causes massive waves on the planet that toss their spacecraft about. A farmer and ex-astronaut, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), is tasked with leading a NASA mission through a wormhole to another galaxy in order to investigate three potentially inhabitable planets for colonization. Nolan’s Interstellar invites scientific critiques via the participation of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who not only served as a script advisor and executive producer on the film, but also released a companion tome, The Science of Interstellar, explaining the heady concepts employed in the movie.įor the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight. It is, however, a high compliment for a blockbuster space odyssey like Interstellar to earn the right to be analyzed on a scientific level after all, films like Star Wars and Star Trek are never held up to such scrutiny. “My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” filmmaker Christopher Nolan told The Daily Beast.
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