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Gargantua: Humanity’s new sun? It really is quite pretty.
Last night I saw Christopher Nolan’s latest, Interstellar, a film about a desperate mission through a black hole to find a new home for humanity before the Earth becomes uninhabitable. It’s mostly hard sci-fi, softened with a bit of metaphysics, but at its heart is a story about a father and his daughter. [Read more…]
A black hole seen in Interstellar, courtesy of Paramount.
Nolan has consulted with Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who provided a modern, scientific understanding of black hole theory via Einstein’s general relativity equations and the Black Hole Information Paradox.
Oh, and also the movie apparently stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, and comes out tomorrow, yadda-yadda-yadda…