Wow, what a film! Well at least I enjoyed it, I don’t know about you guys. There’s been a lot of talk about the science behind the film and a lot of discussions about how accurate it all was. I make no claims to be qualified to make a judgement on how true any of it could be, but, if you will indulge me for a few minutes, I would like to look at the scientific principles underpinning the story and give my own humble opinions on them.
The two big stars, no puns intended, are of course the wormhole and the black hole, Gargantua.
Lets look at these in order of when we meet them in the film.
The wormhole. This is an artificially created shortcut from our part of our Universe to another part of our Universe. This is actually possible, at least in theory. In fact it…
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