[Phys-L] Thorne, executive producer. Was: Re: Interstellar

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

“Interstellar,” an outer-space survivalist epic created by the director Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay, is ardently, even fervently incomprehensible, a movie designed to separate the civilians from the geeks, with the geeks apparently the target audience. 
“Interstellar” and “The Theory of Everything” Reviews

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/love-physics

AND:
As the crew members enter the distant passage, with its altered space-time continuum, they testily debate one another, referring, in passing, to theories advanced by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Kip Thorne. (Thorne, a theoretical physicist and a longtime friend of Hawking’s, served as an adviser and an executive producer on the film.)

bc, subs the NYer. 

On 2014, Nov 09, , at 17:33, Paul Lulai <plulai@stanthony.k12.mn.us> wrote:

> I've heard mixed reviews.  
> Neil deGrasse Tyson likes it..
> http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/after-cosmos-neil-degrasse-tyson-dives-science-interstellar-n243796 

reported here also.

> Bad Astronomy guy doesn't...
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/11/07/interstellar_ba_movie_review.html
>
> I didn't realize Kip Thorne actually wrote an accompanying piece.  I will have to look that up.  
> I haven't had a chance to go. I actually got a poster in the mail with activities for the movie, but I haven't had a chance to look at any of them.  Don't know how I got on that mailing list.
>
> Have a good one.
> Paul.
>
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> I saw this movie today. The story is convoluted and far-fetched, but the science is very accurate (involving celestial mechanics, time travel, black holes, relativity, and quantum physics). The film is a bit long at nearly 3 hours, but it makes you think about our humanity and the complexities of intergalactic space travel.
>
> Anyone else seen it?
>
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