[Phys-L] Movies and physics

[Savinainen Antti <antti.savinainen@kuopio.fi>]

Hello,



this might interest those who have watched/are going to watch the movie The Martian. There is an illuminating review of the science in The Martian in Physics Today:

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.9047



Many of you probably know already that Kip S. Thorne and colleagues have written a paper on GR related topics in the movie Interstellar;  it could be used in teaching elementary GR:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03809



Regards,



Antti Savinainen, PhD

Finland

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