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Re: [Phys-L] Movies and physics



Interesting! I see about 20 films (only in theaters) every year, and write
reviews for a group of faculty members. The Martian was good, but not
great. Critics and audiences are loving it (and Matt Damon is popular),
but the science was not quite correct, and some of the scenes/ideas were
impossible. The general public would not notice these errors. I liked it
more than Gravity, but not as much as Interstellar. Still, it's a useful
film for multidisciplinary science themes (bio, chem, phys, and astro),
class discussions, etc.


Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
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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