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| anonymousgamer | Date: Saturday, 21.11.2015, 18:10 | Message # 46 |
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| Quote sinsforeal (  ) I am also entitled to tell you your opinion is shit.
Not really.
Quote Forum rules ( ) Please try to avoid using profane language on the forum.
Let's tone down the hostility, thanks. And, you know, get back to talking about SE.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Saturday, 21.11.2015, 21:38 | Message # 47 |
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| Inarius, read the Kip Thorne's book first, it is not very long. Film idea is belong to Kip Thorne, so science is on the first place there. The film have a lot of accurate scientific facts depicted (even 4-dimensional Tesseract have scientific basis). Film director was forced to change some things to make picture "more understandable for mass audience" (like removing the Doppler shif from the black hole's accretion disk, or moving Miller planet far from event horizon), but many features are left accurate. This is most scientifically accurate film to date in my opinion (I can remember only Carl Sagan's "Contact", where Kip Thorne was an advisor by the way).
The only hardly believable fact in the story is existense of such strange black hole system, with so weak accretion disk what it have no hard x-ray radiation, during geologically-long times, so planets are stabilized their climate. But this may be explained by presence of 4-dimentional entites: they found such place in the Universe to make other scenario things happen (black hole was needed to place Tesseract inside it to transmit data to the past, and probably to create wormholes).
Anyway, the book is interesting itself and said a lot about black holes, general relativity and multidimensional universe. I highly recommend it to all.
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| Inarius | Date: Sunday, 22.11.2015, 23:36 | Message # 48 |
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| @Spaceengineer : Thanks for advising the book, I'll read it if I can (I suppose it wasn't translated in French...). I loved Contact, when I first saw it, and, as you said, it was quite accurate (and I know it was Kip Thorne, too !).
@sinsforreal : My commentary wasn't directed against anyone (unlike yours). I was really bored during the movie, i just didn't understand why so many people liked it, and the very loud and epic-every-second music from Hans Zimmer made it worse. I found the character quite dumb (the black man waiting in the ship for years, seriously ? Just to show the audience the effect of time relativity...or the evil guy who opens the unpressurised door...).
This summer, I saw a conference about this movie, and it lasted 2 or 3 hours, and what I wrote was only a part from it. And the speaker was an astrophysician.
On the other hand, there are many things true in this movie, and that's why I came for it, about relativity and black holes. And you are all true when you say that it's not supposed to be realistic. What really bothered me is that in all the media you see that it was.
Actually, I think i wouldn't be so picky about the science part if I had liked the scenario. But saving the world with love, a watch, and morse with ray of dust behind a library to change the past by giving secret base coordinate was really too much for me ; actually, the science part is (sadly) probably the most accurate part of the movie.
EDIT : I'm sorry if i used "shitty", perhaps it was a too strong statement. As I said english is not my mothertongue, and I should have used another word.
Edited by Inarius - Wednesday, 25.11.2015, 13:05 |
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