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Source of this post is my two grown sons in Texas. We discussed Thor via Skype, and how they missed our Sci-Fi movie romps together. I admit, so do I. I did have my issues with some of the plot devices, and hanging Mjolnir on a coat rack: dude, we're suspending belief knowing you can't even LIFT a hammer "forged from the heart of a dying star" (i.e. a white dwarf?) let alone hang it on a hook on an apartment wall! Yes, I'm in too deep...
Interstellar is a movie coming out in November 2014. Christopher and Jonathan Nolan co-writers - the same Christopher Nolan that brought you the Dark Knight Trilogy. Hans Zimmer is is scoring the thing! I've been a fan of his since the 80's with "Miami Vice."
Yes, it's a year out to wait, but it's based on Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy." The plot is a little dark, and maybe we need to be shaken out of our doldrums with a dark foreboding possibility regarding an engineered willful ignorance of science (3rd link, next paragraph). I think the function of science fiction, especially Dystopian types, should serve as a warning.
It's exciting when a little science winds its way into our fiction (thinking of "Ender's Game" and "Gravity"), since fiction is cramming its way rudely into our K-12 science...which could result in sadly, a Dystopian future for all of us in the long run.
Yes, it's a year out to wait, but it's based on Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy." The plot is a little dark, and maybe we need to be shaken out of our doldrums with a dark foreboding possibility regarding an engineered willful ignorance of science (3rd link, next paragraph). I think the function of science fiction, especially Dystopian types, should serve as a warning.
It's exciting when a little science winds its way into our fiction (thinking of "Ender's Game" and "Gravity"), since fiction is cramming its way rudely into our K-12 science...which could result in sadly, a Dystopian future for all of us in the long run.
Your Primer:
Leo Susskind giving a lecture on Inside Black Holes (source of embed: Physics Database):
Leo Susskind giving a lecture on Inside Black Holes (source of embed: Physics Database):
You should see a short trailer in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug."
I just gave you another good reason to go to the movies...hopefully, with your family.
Movie site: Interstellar
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