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Heck, expand The Prestige and make a Nikola Tesla biopic.

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Ding ding ding. Winner. And bring back David Bowie as Tesla. Hell, get Elon Musk to fund it and do it completely indie.

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Same here. Thanks for the reminder.

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Did I just get inceptioned?

This is the PERFECT soundtrack to work/write to. Absolutely loving it so far...

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Did I just get inceptioned?

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BRRRRAHHHHHHMMM!!!! (Hans Zimmer noise)

Where is it available? Not seeing it on Spotify yet.

iTunes

Got the deluxe edition.

Also I just want to go to my car and crank "Stay" all day long

Nolan speaks about the sound of the film...

End of the day, whatever he was trying didn't work at key moments. Also comes off as an example of group think.

I saw it in IMAX and only remembered maybe a couple spots where the music was overpowering.

That and the part with Professor Brand in the hospital bed with his mumbling. Didn't get most of that.

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Just saw this last night, and I can't stop running it all through my head. Awesome movie.

My biggest quibble or maybe I missed some dialogue: what was MM's purpose in having TARS send him the NASA coordinates so he could then use gravity to send them to himself to find NASA? At that point in the scene, I thought he was trying to get himself to not go on the mission (since he had just sent himself the STAY message) and hadn't realized his purpose in the tessearct yet.

It seemed like this was shoe-horned into the scene to explain where the NASA coordinates came from, when in reality, I feel he could have been brought into the NASA fold in a much more logical way.

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Cooper realized the people (future humans or other) who created the tesseract lived outside the bounds of time, but they didn't know how or when to communicate to present day humans to help give them the information necessary to save them. Cooper realized he was in the tesseract because he know when and how to communicate that knowledge to Murph. Murpoh was the one who was supposed to solve gravity and save humanity, but Cooper was required to help bridge the information gap.

Cooper gave himself the NASA coordinates because he realized that he essentially brought himself into this process. This gets into the paradox of time travel, which is something you have to accept without understanding. I've tried to explain it to myself by thinking that the 5th dimensional beings can experience everything simultaneously (as depicted in the tesseract), so a linear timeline would be irrelevant to them.

...maybe : )

Loving the soundtrack... I'm just sitting here listening getting chills

If anyone is looking for the music from the docking scene, it's not in the soundtrack but someone made their own version using cues from other tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/tyler-srinivasaraghavan/spinning-dock

There's a track on the deluxe edition called "Imperfect Lock" which sounds like the music from that scene.

That scene.


I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

It seems that all of Cooper's actions in the tesseract are done with the intention of influencing the past until he is trying to relay information to Murph at the end. There is an immediate logic or emotion driving his actions, and I can't figure out what drove his NASA coordinates.

I guess my issue is that it took a "ghost" to get Cooper involved...which turns out to be Cooper? I just wish Cooper's initial introduction to NASA was done differently.

Also, it was my impression there actually is a time distortion in wormholes, yet that isn't the case in the movie. Am I wrong on that or did Nolan suspend that law to keep the characters' timelines within each others' lifetimes?

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Well, in current scientific theory, a wormhole will collapse on anyone who tries to pass through the moment they step in... But since the premise of the show is using a theoretical wormhole to cross the universe, I think it's alright to give them a pass on making the thing work however they'd like it to work. Not sure if theory expects them to have crazy gravity.

I also think wormholes are supposed to work like the portals from Portal, and not be long tubes...

Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson on wormholes and other science from interstellar: http://www.npr.org/2014/11/14/363798836/neil-degrasse-tyson-separates-fact-from-fiction-in-interstellar

He doesn't get super into it, but hits on the "it will collapse on you" bit.

Edit: coolest part of that interview was NDT mentioning satellites orbiting earth experience time dilation like the crew descending to the planet did, but on a much, much, much smaller scale. Still, it's enough change that the GPS satellites were built with clocks that tick slower than clocks on earth to compensate for this and keep them in synch with us: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

Totally cool.

That is fascinating about the satellites. Is it because they are further from Earth Gravity?

Yes and no. It's partially because of the Earth gravitational field exerted on the satellites in orbit as compared to on the planet, and also because of the relative speed the satellites are moving compared to on the planet. It's similar as to how fast the wheel of a bike tire spins compare to at the spoke. The gravitational field effect is "general relativity", the speed effect is "special relativity."

Actually, the speed of the satellites in space slows their time in relation to ours, while the gravity of the Earth in spacetime speeds up time for the satellites in space relative to ours. So they get behind a little bit because they are moving, and they get ahead a little bit because they experience less gravity.

Not sure if this has been posted or not.

The metaphysics of Interstellar: a conversation with Kip Thorne and Christoper Nolan, Wired 2014

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Yes. The deeper you are in the gravity well, the slower your times goes compared to the rest of the universe. If GPS satellites did not account for this discrepancy they would be off by 11km.

In the case of black holes, the Event Horizon is at a place in the gravitational well where time actually stops relative to the rest of the universe. If you are on the outside watching someone fall into a black hole, you will never see them cross that line - which is what led me to believe that we will never technically see a black hole.... As a star collapses into a black hole, it's outter layers will get closer and closer to where the Event Horizon is. And as seen from the outside, it will never get there. But it will be so red-shifted that it will appear black, so yes we will see a black hole, but technically, the star will never fully collapse within the Event Horizon.

As the person falling into the black hole, you will just zip past the Event Horizon. If you are looking at the outside universe, you will notice that it will suddenly fast forward to the end of time as you pass the Event Horizon though.

....I'm now terrified of falling into a black hole.

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Yes. The deeper you are in the gravity well, the slower your times goes compared to the rest of the universe. If GPS satellites did not account for this discrepancy they would be off by 11km.

In the case of black holes, the Event Horizon is at a place in the gravitational well where time actually stops relative to the rest of the universe. If you are on the outside watching someone fall into a black hole, you will never see them cross that line - which is what led me to believe that we will never technically see a black hole.... As a star collapses into a black hole, it's outter layers will get closer and closer to where the Event Horizon is. And as seen from the outside, it will never get there. But it will be so red-shifted that it will appear black, so yes we will see a black hole, but technically, the star will never fully collapse within the Event Horizon.

As the person falling into the black hole, you will just zip past the Event Horizon. If you are looking at the outside universe, you will notice that it will suddenly fast forward to the end of time as you pass the Event Horizon though.

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