![]() ![]() And while Chris Nolan was rewriting his brother's script, he wanted to get a handle on the science at the heart of his story. Eventually Spielberg dropped out Jonathan's brother Chris-known for directing mind-bendy movies like Memento and Inception (plus Batman) dropped in. Just before his retirement, Thorne and film producer Lynda Obst, whom he'd known since Carl Sagan set them up on a blind date three decades earlier, were playing around with an idea for a movie that would involve the mysterious properties of black holes and wormholes.īefore long, Steven Spielberg signed on to direct screenwriter Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan wrote a script. Sure, he's a famous theorist, but even before his retirement from Caltech in 2009 he was deeply interested in explaining the heady ideas of relativity to the general public. Thorne Isn't your average astrophysicist. Black holes, even fictional ones, can warp perception. Nolan, the consummate image maker, sees beauty. And alongside a small galaxy of Hollywood stars-Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow-the simulation plays a central role in Interstellar, the prestige space travel epic directed by Christopher Nolan opening November 7. It's the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers. What does Thorne see in there? He's an astrophysicist his math guided the creation of this mesmerizing visual effect, the most accurate simulation ever of what a black hole would look like. Relatively speaking, time would seem to be going faster for me. And it gets weirder: If you were closer to a black hole than I was, our perceptions of space and time would diverge. Objects like stars and black holes do this so powerfully that they actually bend light and pull space and time with it. Einstein explained this: The more massive something is, the more gravity it produces. ![]() For example, their gravity is so strong that they bend the fabric of the universe. A glowing ring orbiting the spheroidal maelstrom seems to curve over the top and below the bottom simultaneously.Īll this is only natural, because weird things happen near black holes. (That's gravity for you relativity is superweird.) In theory it was once a star, but instead of fading or exploding, it collapsed like a failed soufflé into a tiny point of inescapable singularity. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it. That's what it would do.” ¶ This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. ![]() This resolves the information paradox as it was framed by Hawking," Professor Raju said, adding that the recent work of Calmet adds additional evidence for the resolution of the paradox, "but does not represent a fundamentally new perspective.Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course. "Over the past few years, with several collaborators, we have shown that all the information inside a black hole can be recovered from outside as a consequence of the effects of quantum gravity. He has been working on a resolution to Hawking's paradox showing that all the information in the interior can be recovered from the exterior due to the effects of quantum gravity. The new discovery is built upon the works of Professor Suvrat Raju of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences at Bengaluru. This new development provides the mechanism by which information is preserved during the collapse of a black hole and as such resolves one of modern science’s most famous problems. It turns out that black holes are in fact good children, holding onto the memory of the stars that gave birth to them,” says Professor Calmet. Our solution doesn’t require any speculative idea, instead, our research demonstrates that the two theories can be used to make consistent calculations for black holes and explain how information is stored without the need for radical new physics. ![]() “What we found and I think is particularly exciting is that this isn’t necessary. ![]()
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