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The Science Of Interstellar!
The good, the bad, and the definitely interesting! Today, let’s take a deep look into one of the most popular sci-fi movies of the decade, Interstellar. Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? veryone loves a good sci-fi movie, right? But if you’re someone like me, what makes these kinds of movies interesting is the soundness and accuracy of the science that was demonstrated in it! For instance, The Martian has definitely set up the bar in terms of scientific accuracy, as a lot of scientists agree that the events that took place in the movie might actually be how one will go about living on Mars. There are other great examples such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Minority Report, and Deep Impact. But today, we are going to talk about Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed blockbuster, 2014’s Interstellar! In case you forgot how the movie went, here’s a really, really, brief recall! The movie was set in a dystopian Earth, where there is a massive blight slowly causing a lot of crops to become extinct. Now, obviously it is easy to see how this would be a problem, right? So, NASA, which is now a secret government project, spends all their time and energy in finding our next home. A pilot stumbles upon the coordinates of this secret agency, travels to this place, and gets recruited to be the designated driver for mankind’s search for its next home. That’s basically the plot of it: scientists looking for a way to salvage the rest of us by looking for Earth number 2. With a lot of extra elements to it of course. It’s a sci-fi movie after all. If you’re a fan of science, surely the movie must have been an absolute delight due to the buffet of information to ponder upon: what caused the blight in the first place, can there possibly be wormholes out there, does gravitational lensing really work as depicted around the black hole, does time really go faster around a more massive object, the manipulation of gravity...I could go on, but for the sake of the video, let’s pick a few of these and describe the science behind the events! Before I go on ahead explaining, I think it’s appropriate to place a spoiler alert here. I know, I know, the movie was almost 6 years old, and to be honest, I would be very surprised if you hadn’t seen it yet. But hey, wouldn’t hurt to have a bit of courtesy, right? First, let’s talk about the highway that the Endurance went through to get to the other side of the universe: wormholes. In the movie, one challenge that NASA faced was bringing a spacecraft to a galaxy where there is an abundance of viable planets. As if God himself watched over this mission, a wormhole opened near Saturn and instantly connected the crew into the other galaxy, where three possible new Earths are within reach. Romilly explained wormholes to Cooper this way. Well, okay, I wouldn’t credit Rom for this since it’s how wormholes are generally explained to folks who are not that strongly science-inclined. Drawing in a piece of paper, Romilly drew two exes at the top and the bottom. The closest point between these two points is a straight line, but if you can fold the paper in such a way that the two points instantly touch, then you practically saved time. Now, on paper, that doesn’t sound like a lot of savings, but if it were in space? In the vast outer space? Imagine years of travels that can be compressed to just months! Or even hours! If you don’t yet get the gravity of how fast that travel can be, it’s basically faster than the universe’s speed limit, the speed of light. Even though you can say that it’s some kind of cheating, in a way. Unfortunately, the concept of wormholes are nothing but theory, as this is what general relativity suggests, due to the distortion of space-time due to gravity. However, the movie did great justice in presenting how this expressway might look like in case we actually ever find one: a sphere suspended in space that seems to be a blurry mirror. And of course, if we ever get to finding one in the future, you’ll be sure that we will feature this here on this channel! So next, the Endurance spacecraft travels through this wormhole and arrives at a new stellar system. And it’s not just any ordinary system, it’s one that is awfully close to a blackhole. To which two planets are orbiting around. The first planet that the crew decided to land on, Miller’s planet, has a lot of shallow waters. At this point, there are two very important and interesting events that are going on. Let’s talk about the first one. As the movie progressed, the crew on the surface saw something which they thought were mountains. Later on, this was revealed to actually be a gigantic tidal wave! Take note of the word usage here: it’s not a tsunami, but a tidal wave. Why is that? Well, try to recall how tsunamis are generated. #InsaneCuriosity #Interstellar #AllScience&TechVideos
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