Comparing Thorne's Depiction On Black Holes And Wormholes
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Interstellar (2014) has been praised as the most scientifically accurate film based on its depictions of space and time travel. This is no surprise on account of having world re-known astro-physicist Kip Thorne on set as an executive producer and scientific consultant. However, it is currently being debated in the scientific community whether these depictions are truly accurate. This raises the question on whether or not the filmmakers listened to Thorne's scientific consultations. Namely, the film's depictions on black holes and wormholes are being questioned.
In the film, we are first introduced to wormholes when Cooper asks Romilly how wormholes work. Personally, I find it very difficult to believe that a so-called brilliant engineer and pilot like Cooper would have no prior knowledge on how wormholes work when he agreed to pilot the spaceship. However, this can be dismissed as a script-writing flaw and a way to let…show more content… This system is governed by a supermassive black hole by the name of Gargantua. It is stated during the movie that Gargantua has a mass 100 million times of our sun and rotates at 99.8 percent of the speed of light. The way the film makers portray the effects of Gargantua's mass and speed are seemingly accurate. In the first planet they visit, each hour they spend on the planet is equal to 7 years on Earth. This is scientifically accurate in terms of gravitational time dilation. Einstein's description of gravitational time dilation mentions that time runs slower when in a higher gravitational potential. Using Newton's law of universal gravitation, it can be calculated that Gargantua's gravitational potential is extremely large. The crew of the Endurance also experience high tide in the planet which is a result of Gargantua's large gravitational field. With that being said, the movie's depiction of the effects of Gargantua's large mass are valid at this point of the