A Peek at the Astonishing Real Science of INTERSTELLAR

We’re all excited to see Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in a couple weeks because we know that the science fiction epic is going to be beautiful and thought-provoking, but we know that it’s going to be heavy on the fiction side of the science fiction genre, right? Maybe not. Wired has an excellent piece on how physicist Kip Thorne spent months meeting with Nolan to get the science right — curved space-time, how gravity bends light, what a black hole would actually look like. Thorne wrote equations to guide the computer simulations that created the movie’s massive black hole. He played a huge role in the development of the look of space in the film and is happy that Interstellar delivers real, accurate science to moviegoers. He also thinks that the black hole simulation exposed new truth about the way light behaves around the massive collapsed stars. He thinks he can publish two papers on it.

You can watch this Wired video about Thorne’s work on the film, and you should really read the entire article. Thanks to Gizmodo for the tip.

I've also included a motion poster for the film, in which some snow blows around and the camera zooms in on Matthew McConaughey. Scintillating.