Physicists often speak of the uncertainty principle in terms of position and velocity (in momentum). But momentum is Mass X Velocity. Why is it that we can say something like "a particle with a well defined position has high uncertainty in velocity". But I never hear a statement like "a particle...
Because adult Murphy said, late in the film, that answer would lie solely in her old bedroom. Nothing else in the film suggests that the characters noticed odd happenings outside of Murphy's bedroom (where the 'ghosts' were). This is a good example of why so many people found the film...
I just remembered something early on in the film that to me is another ridiculous point in the film. There were autonomous farm equipment working in the corn fields. The suddenly left the fields and headed to the farmhouse. Knowing what we know, are we supposed to believe that Cooper...
Not science related, but I found it funny anyway. It's the reaction shots of McCaunghey's Cooper that make him look like an imbecile. A better director would have corrected McCaunghey and opted for another take.
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I brought up a similar point in another thread (which the moderator shut down). I've yet to read any concern Neil Tyson has with a couple of the themes of the movie. Namely, that an scientifically illiterate culture is able to achieve unimaginable engineering feats. And two, relatively...
An excerpt from Kip Thorne's "Science of Interstellar" is posted on Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/29/our_universe_would_be_destroyed_inside_the_science_of_interstellar/
This is an excerpt from an interview between Tyson and Alex Biese, a reporter with Ashbury Park Press (a Gannett Company).
"I think that while that was a point of the film, (but) I think they could have made an even bigger point out of that," Tyson said. "But what I think would be a more...
I read a little bit that was made available on Google Books. I'm probably wrong in my assessment but it sounds like Thorne is suggesting that the supermassive swirling black hole is the result of 5th dimensional beings, or constructs, passing through our 3 dimensional universe; and that Prof...
A couple of questions.
1. If the Endurance is in orbit around the planet wouldn't it eventually end up in the high gravity well too.
2. So 23 years passes for Romily (who remained in Endurance) and seven hours passed for Cooper and Brand on the planet. Let's say in that seven hours Cooper and...
Yes! Exactly. As a point of reference here's a YouTube video of a presentation Tyson made a few years ago on intelligent design. You'll have to go to the 22:50 mark to hear Tyson's take on societies rejecting science in favor religious dogma.
Yes I did consider all of the above. However...