Interstellar: Black Holes

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Interstellar is jam packed with interesting and somewhat confusing movie concepts. Interstellar's main concepts play around the movies center piece Gargantua. (a giant black hole). The main thing Interstellar portrays accurately is the extreme warping of space that the gigantic black hole does. In the movie we can see this physically with a sea of trapped light surrounding the emptiness which is the black hole, but also through the extreme time dilation within the holes gravity. Essentially the black hole stretches the space time around it increasing in magnitude the closer you get to it. This is what creates the varying degree of time dilation on the planets in Interstellar, depending on their proximity to the black hole. The main characteristics of a black hole are the event horizon and the singularity. The event horizon is the point in the black hole where nothing can escape unless they exceed the speed of light and, the singularity is a point in space past the event horizon that is infinitely small and space time is also curved infinitely. Obviously there is no research of anything past the event horizon because escaping the black hole with said research is impossible at this point in time but, they do make a very interesting attempt to display the singularity in Interstellar. After Mathew McConaughey's character goes into the black hole, he's suspended in a 3D representation of time where he can interact with the past, present and the future all  at the same time. Although this does seem outlandish it is interesting to think about how time would be bent in this far unknown point space.
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  1. Prof. Chris FragileDecember 9, 2019 at 6:30 AM

    Obviously, this is late. Also, I don't see much that would indicate you incorporated much knowledge from the book The Science of Interstellar, as the assignment required.

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