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The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku praised the film for its scientific accuracy and said Interstellar "could set the gold standard for science fiction movies for years to come". Timothy Reyes, a former NASA software engineer, said "Thorne's and Nolan's accounting of black holes and wormholes and the use of gravity is excellent". [59]
Following Joseph “Coop” Cooper (McConaughey), a farmer and former NASA test pilot, the film takes place on Earth in 2067. By this time, humans anticipate extinction due to famine, blight and ...
The film was positively reviewed by critics and was praised for its scientific accuracy, particularly the depiction of the black hole Gargantua, [9] [10] but received some criticism for the ice clouds on Mann's planet. [11] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 73% based on 379 reviews. [12]
The Science of Interstellar is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, with a foreword by Christopher Nolan. The book was initially published on November 7, 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] [2] This is his second full-size book for non-scientists after Black Holes and Time Warps, released in 1994.
In the two episodes "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit" (both 2006) of the British television series Doctor Who, the plot of the episode takes place on the titular “impossible planet”, a barren blanet called Krop Tor orbiting a black hole called K37 Gem 5. In Interstellar (2014), two of the 3 terrestrial planets orbiting ...
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Black holes seem to have a sweet spot in terms of size, power and lifespan which is almost ideal. A black hole weighing 606,000 metric tons (6.06 × 10 8 kg) would have a Schwarzschild radius of 0.9 attometers (0.9 × 10 –18 m, or 9 × 10 –19 m), a power output of 160 petawatts (160 × 10 15 W, or 1.6 × 10 17 W), and a 3.5-year lifespan ...