The Problem With Interstellar's Black Hole that Everyone Ignores

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4 Jan 202418:20

Summary

TLDRThis video delves into the scientific concepts explored in Christopher Nolan's *Interstellar*, particularly black holes, wormholes, and time dilation. While the film pushes boundaries between science and science fiction, it stays grounded in modern physics theories like Einstein's relativity and Kip Thorne's research. The video examines the plausibility of key elements such as wormholes, gravitational time dilation, and black hole travel, highlighting where the film aligns with and diverges from current scientific understanding. It concludes with a discussion on time paradoxes and the challenges of time travel portrayed in the movie.

Takeaways

  • 🌌 Interstellar masterfully blends science with science fiction, particularly concepts like black holes, wormholes, and time dilation from general relativity.
  • ⏳ The film explores extreme time dilation as astronauts experience decades passing in minutes due to gravitational forces near black holes.
  • 🌀 Wormholes are theoretically possible, based on Einstein's theory of relativity, but creating and sustaining them for travel is still beyond our capabilities.
  • 📉 Negative mass would be required to keep a wormhole open, but it is purely theoretical and has never been observed in reality.
  • đŸ›°ïž Gravitational time dilation is real and has been experimentally verified, impacting technologies like GPS, which must account for these effects.
  • 🌊 The massive time dilation experienced on Miller’s planet is scientifically plausible due to its proximity to the supermassive black hole, Gargantua.
  • 🔭 Interstellar made significant breakthroughs in visualizing black holes and wormholes, using mathematical models from general relativity to create accurate on-screen representations.
  • 🎬 While the visual scale of Gargantua was altered for cinematic purposes, most scientific details surrounding black holes and gravitational forces were accurately portrayed.
  • đŸ’« Cooper's journey into the black hole involves theoretical elements like spaghettification and event horizons, though his survival and communication across time stretch scientific plausibility.
  • 🌀 The film’s depiction of time loops, bootstrap paradoxes, and free will presents fascinating but speculative ideas about causality and paradoxes in time travel.

Q & A

  • What scientific concepts are prominently featured in *Interstellar*?

    -*Interstellar* prominently features black holes, wormholes, and time dilation, which are key concepts derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity.

  • How does *Interstellar* portray wormholes, and is it scientifically accurate?

    -The film portrays a wormhole near Saturn as a distortion of light, which is scientifically plausible. Wormholes are extreme distortions in spacetime, and the portrayal aligns with our theoretical understanding, though we currently lack the technology to create or use them.

  • What is the main issue with creating wormholes, according to the film's scientific advisor Kip Thorne?

    -Kip Thorne explains that creating wormholes would require negative mass to keep them open, a form of exotic matter that has not been discovered. Without it, wormholes would pinch off and close, making travel through them impossible.

  • Is the time dilation experienced on Miller's planet scientifically plausible?

    -Yes, the time dilation on Miller's planet is scientifically plausible. The massive gravitational pull from the nearby black hole slows down time for those on the planet, which aligns with Einstein's theory of gravitational time dilation.

  • Why does the appearance of the black hole in the film deviate from scientific accuracy?

    -In the film, the black hole Gargantua appears smaller than it should for aesthetic reasons. In reality, it would take up half the sky of Miller's planet based on its calculated mass, but the filmmakers reduced its size to create more striking visuals.

  • What happens to Cooper when he enters the black hole in the film?

    -In the film, Cooper enters the black hole and finds a tesseract, a five-dimensional space where he can move through time as a physical dimension. This allows him to communicate with his daughter across time using gravitational forces, though this is more science fiction than scientific fact.

  • What is 'spaghettification,' and would it happen to Cooper if he entered a black hole?

    -Spaghettification is the process where an object gets stretched due to the intense gravitational gradient near a black hole. If Cooper entered the black hole, he would likely experience this stretching until he was torn apart at the molecular level.

  • Can someone actually survive entering a black hole, as Cooper does in the film?

    -In reality, entering a black hole would be fatal due to extreme radiation, spaghettification, and the intense gravitational forces. The film's portrayal of survival inside a black hole is purely fictional.

  • How does the film address paradoxes related to time travel, and what is a bootstrap paradox?

    -The film uses a bootstrap paradox, where events are self-contained in a time loop. Cooper's actions in the black hole help humanity in the past, and this cycle always happened the same way, avoiding the paradox of changing the past in a way that prevents future events.

  • What role did Kip Thorne play in the production of *Interstellar*?

    -Kip Thorne served as the scientific advisor for the film, ensuring that concepts like black holes and wormholes were portrayed as accurately as possible. His work on the film even led to new breakthroughs in the mathematical modeling of black holes.

Outlines

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🎬 Interstellar’s Revolutionary Scientific Concepts

The first paragraph introduces how Christopher Nolan’s film *Interstellar* intertwines complex scientific ideas like black holes, wormholes, and time dilation with a captivating story. These ideas are rooted in general relativity, and the film portrays the dramatic effects of time dilation as astronauts lose years in mere minutes. Although the film blends science with fiction, it raises questions about the realism of some concepts, such as using black holes to communicate across space and time.

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🌌 Exploring Wormholes in Science and Fiction

The second paragraph explains the film's depiction of wormholes, showing a more scientific approach compared to the usual portrayal of portals. It discusses how wormholes, theoretically allowed by Einstein's equations, could connect distant points in space and time. However, the scientific limitations—such as the inability to create or sustain wormholes—are outlined. The film’s scientific consultant, Kip Thorne, clarifies that creating a wormhole would require backward time travel and negative mass, both of which remain speculative.

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🚀 Keeping Wormholes Open: The Negative Mass Hypothesis

This paragraph delves deeper into the scientific challenges of traveling through wormholes. It explains the theoretical concept of negative mass and how it could keep a wormhole open, though no evidence of negative mass exists. Despite the scientific implausibility, the movie retains this element to drive the plot. The filmmakers even used complex mathematical models to visualize the wormhole, marking a significant scientific and cinematic achievement.

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⏳ Gravitational Time Dilation: Real Science Behind Interstellar

The fourth paragraph evaluates the plausible science behind the depiction of time dilation in *Interstellar*. The crew’s experience of massive time dilation near the black hole Gargantua aligns with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Time slows down in stronger gravitational fields, a phenomenon observed in GPS satellites orbiting Earth. The only discrepancy in the film is the visual size of the black hole, which was altered for cinematic effect.

đŸ•łïž Journey into a Black Hole: The Tesseract Scene

This paragraph tackles the climactic scene where Cooper enters the black hole and encounters a five-dimensional space called the tesseract. The concept of moving through time as a physical dimension and communicating across time and space via gravitational forces is speculative, though some mathematical models hint at such possibilities. The description includes the potential dangers Cooper would face, like spaghettification and radiation, making survival highly improbable.

🔄 The Bootstrap Paradox and Time Loops

The sixth paragraph focuses on the film's use of the bootstrap paradox, where events in the future influence the past in a closed loop. Cooper’s actions in the tesseract directly affect his past, and future humans build the tesseract to ensure humanity’s survival. This paradox removes free will, as events are destined to happen the way they always have. The film embraces these complex, unresolved paradoxes, creating a mind-bending narrative.

🌍 Interstellar: A Blend of Science and Storytelling

In the final paragraph, the overall scientific accuracy of *Interstellar* is summarized. While the film takes liberties with certain scientific concepts, such as wormholes and time loops, it successfully introduces audiences to advanced physics concepts like time dilation and black holes. The closing acknowledges that there is still more to analyze from the film, teasing future discussions on the plausibility of the planets in *Interstellar* and inviting viewer feedback.

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Keywords

💡Black Hole

A black hole is a region of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. In the video, black holes, particularly the one named Gargantua, play a central role in Interstellar, showcasing the extreme effects of gravitational forces, including time dilation and spaghettification. The film portrays Cooper entering a black hole, which leads to the movie’s mind-bending scenes involving time and space manipulation.

💡Wormhole

A wormhole is a theoretical tunnel through spacetime that connects two separate points in the universe, allowing for faster-than-light travel. In Interstellar, a wormhole near Saturn is humanity's gateway to potentially habitable planets. The video highlights how the film portrays wormholes scientifically, using Einstein's theory of general relativity, but also acknowledges the fictional elements, such as the inability to create or sustain wormholes with current scientific knowledge.

💡Time Dilation

Time dilation is a concept from general relativity where time moves slower in stronger gravitational fields. In Interstellar, time dilation is a critical plot device, especially on Miller's planet, where the extreme gravity near the black hole causes time to pass much more slowly for those on the planet compared to those further away. This leads to the crew losing decades in just a few hours. The video emphasizes that this is a scientifically accurate phenomenon that occurs even with satellites orbiting Earth.

💡General Relativity

General relativity is Albert Einstein's theory describing how gravity affects the fabric of spacetime. It forms the foundation for many of the scientific concepts in Interstellar, including black holes, wormholes, and time dilation. The film applies these principles to create plausible scenarios for space travel and time manipulation, even though it takes some artistic liberties. The video explains how the filmmakers used real scientific equations to model visual effects, such as the appearance of the wormhole and black hole.

💡Gravitational Well

A gravitational well is a concept referring to the pull of gravity from a massive object, such as a planet or a black hole. In Interstellar, the crew experiences extreme time dilation on Miller's planet because it is deep in the gravitational well of the black hole Gargantua. The deeper into the well, the slower time moves relative to observers outside it. The video uses this concept to explain the film's depiction of time distortion in relation to black holes.

💡Spaghettification

Spaghettification is the process by which objects get stretched into long, thin shapes due to the extreme gravitational gradient near a black hole. In the video, it is mentioned that if Cooper were to enter a black hole, he would experience spaghettification as his body would be stretched by the varying gravitational forces acting on different parts of his body. This extreme stretching is one of the fatal consequences of approaching a black hole.

💡Tesseract

In the film, the tesseract is a representation of five-dimensional space, allowing Cooper to perceive time as a physical dimension that he can navigate. This is how Cooper communicates with his daughter across time using gravitational forces. Although the tesseract is largely a fictional element, the concept of higher-dimensional spaces is rooted in advanced theoretical physics, which the video discusses in relation to the film's more imaginative elements.

💡Bootstrap Paradox

The bootstrap paradox is a theoretical time travel paradox where an object or information exists without a clear origin because it was passed back in time. In Interstellar, Cooper uses the tesseract to send vital information back to his daughter, enabling humanity's survival. However, this creates a loop where the knowledge he sends back ultimately makes his own actions possible. The video explores how the film uses this paradox to resolve its narrative, while acknowledging the unsolved nature of such paradoxes in real-world physics.

💡Chronology Protection Conjecture

This is a hypothesis proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking that suggests the laws of physics prevent time travel on a large scale, thus avoiding paradoxes. The video mentions this conjecture when discussing the scientific impossibilities of using wormholes for time travel, as depicted in Interstellar. Although not proven, the conjecture argues that nature would prevent the formation of closed timelike curves, which could allow time travel and paradoxes.

💡Event Horizon

The event horizon is the boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. In Interstellar, Cooper crosses the event horizon of the black hole Gargantua. The video explains how, at the event horizon, Cooper's image would appear to freeze and redshift to an external observer due to the intense gravitational pull, before he disappears from view entirely. This scientifically accurate depiction contrasts with the more fictional elements that follow inside the black hole.

Highlights

Introduction to the film Interstellar, focusing on its use of scientific concepts like black holes, wormholes, and time dilation.

Interstellar integrates real scientific theories, like Einstein's general relativity, into its storytelling, including depictions of black holes and time dilation.

The portrayal of wormholes in the film, using light distortions near Saturn, aligns with the theoretical understanding of wormholes as distortions in space-time.

Although wormholes are mathematically possible, creating or traveling through one remains science fiction due to current technological limitations.

The film explores time dilation near a supermassive black hole, a scientifically plausible phenomenon where time slows dramatically due to strong gravitational fields.

Gravitational time dilation is demonstrated on Earth through the difference in time experienced between satellites and people on the ground, affecting technologies like GPS.

The film's depiction of the black hole, Gargantua, is accurate in many respects, though its visual size in the sky was altered for dramatic effect.

The tesseract scene, where Cooper manipulates time as a physical dimension, introduces a speculative interpretation of physics beyond the event horizon of a black hole.

Spaghettification, a phenomenon where objects are stretched by a black hole's gravity, is touched upon as a real-life effect Cooper would experience near Gargantua.

The concept of negative mass is introduced as a theoretical necessity for keeping a wormhole open, though such matter has never been discovered.

Bootstrap paradoxes, where actions influence the past and future in a self-consistent loop, are a key narrative and scientific theme in Interstellar.

The visualizations of the wormhole and black hole were created using mathematical modeling from general relativity, making them scientifically accurate to a groundbreaking extent.

The film raises complex questions about free will and predestination within the context of time travel and paradoxes.

Kip Thorne, the film’s scientific advisor, published papers after the film's release, highlighting new scientific insights gained during production.

Interstellar illustrates how advanced scientific concepts, such as time dilation and black holes, can be both scientifically educational and engaging for mass audiences.

Transcripts

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black holes worm holes and time dilation

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all concepts of general relativity that

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Christopher Nolan wo into his 2014 film

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Interstellar in a manner we had never

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seen before while many loved its

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groundbreaking scientific take on the

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dangers of intense time dilation as his

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group of astronauts in search of a new

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home for Humanity found themselves

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losing years in minutes there were

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certainly elements of the film and its

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ending that seemed strange

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towering waves sweeping around planets

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black holes that you can enter and use

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to reach across time and space using

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gravitational forces Interstellar at

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times felt like it strayed from science

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into science fiction but what is the

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science and what is the fiction what did

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the film get right where did it take

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artistic license and diverge from our

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current scientific knowledge can you

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really use a black hole to communicate

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ideas across space and time

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I'm Alex molan and you're watching

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astrom join me today as we learn the

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truth about

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Interstellar we will explore the

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numerous scientific phenomena of this

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film that underpin wormholes and black

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holes and discover the realities of what

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happens when you bend SpaceTime to its

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extreme for those of you who need a

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reminder let's begin with a quick plot

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recap in the film a disease referred to

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as the blight takes hold of crops on

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Earth and starts killing them causing a

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population collapse and technological

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Decay as Humanity focuses on farming

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instead of space

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fairing our protagonist a former NASA

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pilot named Cooper finds himself at a

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hidden NASA base where they are working

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on plans to save

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Humanity hope has arrived in the form of

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a wormhole a tunnel through SpaceTime

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that they have detected near the orbit

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of Saturn half a century ago which is

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thought to lead to potentially habitable

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planets in the film they show the

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Wormhole not as a cliche portal but

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through distortions of stars near Saturn

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so here we have our first piece of

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science to evaluate this portrayal of a

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wormhole makes sense a wormhole is an

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extreme Distortion of the fabric of the

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universe similar to a black hole and

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would only really be visible through the

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light near its edges becoming warped

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wormholes are interesting we have the

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theory and Mathematics behind them

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somewhat solved already thanks to

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Einstein and relativity wormholes

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connect SpaceTime to itself resulting in

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a shortcut that joins separate points in

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space and even time to one another the

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film uses a classic analogy for this

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showing a pencil piercing a short cut

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through a piece of paper representing

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SpaceTime sadly though although we have

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the theory we don't actually have the

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means to make them even if they can be

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made at all there are a couple of

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problems with with wormholes to begin

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with their

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creation the scientific adviser for the

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film Kip Thorn released a few physics

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papers after the film to discuss the

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scientific advancements they made in its

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production in a paper titled visualizing

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interstellar's Wormhole he notes that it

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is difficult to create a wormhole out of

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nothing as it would require the

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existence of backwards time travel you

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see once the two ends of a wormhole were

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linked they would stay linked then if

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you could time dilate one end for

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another by moving it very quickly

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causing it to move slower in time than

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the other end you could enter the end

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further along in time and emerge at the

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point further back in time thus entering

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your own past you could then for

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instance grab yourself and stop yourself

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from entering the first portal in the

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first place creating a paradox where you

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both enter and do not enter the portal

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breaking reality and also my brain there

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are lots of mathematical arguments that

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Advocate against this sort of thing such

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as Steven Hawkings chronology protection

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conjecture simply put it states that the

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laws of physics would prevent wormholes

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these closed Tim likee curves from

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appearing in the first place admittedly

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this hasn't been proven and relies on a

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bit of an appeal to Common Sense Loops

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can't exist because we would struggle to

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imagine how they can exist this is a

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problem we return to later in the film

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however the time travel aspect isn't the

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only problem with wormholes traveling

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through them is theoretically tricky too

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you see if a wormhole were to be created

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the throat of the Wormhole would soon

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pinch off and the shortcut through

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SpaceTime would be sealed due to gravity

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forcing it to close in on itself so the

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moment Cooper tried to enter the

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Wormhole it would instantly close ending

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his mission before before it started

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which would make for a boring film to

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make a wormhole persist long enough that

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people can travel through it we would

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have to use a mathematical hack we

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pretend as if some exotic matter exists

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which has negative

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Mass this negative Mass would then have

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to be placed at the throat so that it

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can create opposing curvature which

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would counteract the tendency of the

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Wormhole to close keeping it open in

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perpetuity you might be thinking that

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this sounds made up and you'd be right

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we have never found negative mass and

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have no idea how to make it so this

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seems like a mere mathematical curiosity

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so while worm holes are allowed for in

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scientific fact actually traveling

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through one is so far just science

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fiction still without it the rest of the

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film couldn't really happen so you can

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understand why Nolan decided to keep it

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in whether or not this conjecture is

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true this backwards causal relationship

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is baked into the movie not just because

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of the existence of the Wormhole which

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implies it but also with a reveal at the

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climax of the film which we will return

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to later while the existence of the

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Wormhole require some suspension of

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disbelief the stunning visuals of the

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Wormhole do not in fact the team behind

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the film used the theory of general

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relativity to mathematically model what

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a real Wormhole would look like which

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was in fact an impressive breakthrough

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of mathematical modeling in a bonus

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scene for patrons and members we explain

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how they were able to bring the Wormhole

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and black hole from Mass equations to

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the IMAX screen make sure to check it

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out now let's move on to the next piece

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of science to

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evaluate after the crew makes their Way

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Through the Wormhole they arrive near a

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super massive black hole called

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Gargantua orbiting Gargantua are two

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promising PL planets that may be able to

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Harbor life the first one Miller's

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planet is deep in the gravitational well

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caused by the black Hall some of the

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crew go down onto the planet but within

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just a short couple of hours have

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skipped forward decades into the future

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much to The Misfortune of the crewmate

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they left behind who had to live out

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those years at normal

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speed this part of the film is

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absolutely

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plausible this is gravitational time

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dilation in action and is Thoroughly

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proven

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experimentally gravitational time

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dilation is a result of the bending of

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SpaceTime caused by Massive objects time

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itself runs slower when you are gripped

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by stronger gravity it even takes place

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here on Earth between us and our

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orbiting satellites much like the

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crewmate left outside the gravity well

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experiencing faster time a clock placed

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at the orbit of GPS satellites records

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45 extra micros seconds per day day

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compared to a clock on the Earth's

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surface GPS must take this effect into

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account to get calculations of your

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position right if they didn't your

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Google maps location would quickly

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diverge from your actual position it's

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crazy to think that the same underlying

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theory that explains black holes and

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time travel also helps us find our way

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home when we are lost that in itself is

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Nobel Prize

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worthy of course in interstellar the

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time dation effect is taken to the

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extreme in the ultra strong

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gravitational well of a super massive

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black hole an orbiting Planet could be

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experiencing severe time dilation

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compared to an observer much further out

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so really the only thing to nitpick here

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is the size of the black hole in the sky

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from the view of the planet in the

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science of interstellar Kip Thorn states

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that Gargantua is 100 million times the

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mass of our sun and that this would mean

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that the black hole would take up half

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of the entire entire Sky of Miller's

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planet to make the calculations work out

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however Nolan decided to make it look

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smaller in the sky so that it would

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appear more striking when it's the focus

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of the story later on here is an example

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of where Aesthetics went out over true

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scientific

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exactitude now much like the crew down

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on the water Planet let's jump further

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ahead in time we have the strangest most

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mindbending scene of the whole film to

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explore the part where Kuba and enters

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the black hole in a bit to save the

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mission and to get at least some of the

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crew to the final Planet Cooper has to

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sacrifice himself catapulting himself

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into the heart of the black hole to give

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others enough momentum to escape its

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gravity ironically though this isn't the

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certain Doom it first appeared at the

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heart of the black hole Cooper finds a

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tesseract a representation of five

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dimensional space where time is a

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physical Dimension that he can move

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around in he's able to use gravitational

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forces here to reach out to his daughter

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back on Earth across space and time and

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bizarrely is able to give her the

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knowledge she needs to start the mission

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to the other planets in the first place

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so let's ask the big question here is

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any of this theoretically possible let's

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start with simply the concept of

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entering the black hole in a previous

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video I've made about black holes I

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spoke about how they're actually quite

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hard to get into angular momentum can

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become near relativistic the closer you

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are to the black hole requiring you to

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shed momentum before you can fall any

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deeper that accretion disc you see

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around Gargantua is matter that is doing

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exactly that spinning so fast as it

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tries to shed momentum to fall deeper

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into the abyss that the friction

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involved has turned it into a bright

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plasma seeing as this plasma can reach

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temperatures of millions of degrees C

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this might prove fatal for poor Cooper

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but let's say that Cooper manages to

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find a route that does not turn him into

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superheated plasma on the way in what

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would happen firstly as he crossed the

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Event Horizon the boundary after which

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even light can't escape the light

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bouncing off his body would make it

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appear as if he were moving slower if

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you were viewing this from the outside

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you'd see the image of his body freeze

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and persist on the Event Horizon before

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gradually turning

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invisible because the light is being

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stretched by the EXT ex Distortion of

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SpaceTime its wavelength would increase

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and the light you receive later on would

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be more and more red shifted until

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Cooper vanished from your view entirely

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Cooper meanwhile depending on his angle

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of Entry would start to experience an

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effect known as

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spaghettification essentially as parts

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of his body started to experience the

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passage of time slightly differently due

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to the gradient of gravity he was

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falling into he would find himself

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slowly becoming more and more

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stretched this pull would eventually

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snap him in half as the force of it

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overcame the bonds between his molecules

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this would happen again and again until

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he was just a stream of molecules

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falling into the black hole's

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heart this would not necessarily happen

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exactly at the Event Horizon The Event

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Horizon itself is not truly a physical

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object but rather is simply the

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mathematical point between gravity that

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is escapable and gravity that is

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inescapable Cooper might not notice he

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was crossing it if it weren't for an

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obstacle known as the

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Photosphere there is a point in space

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along the edge of the Event Horizon

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where gravity pulls just the right

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amount to not let any light escape the

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black hole but also doesn't pull enough

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to drag it in deeper in effect at this

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precise distance from The Singularity

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any photons of light that arrive enter

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an orbit they never leave over time the

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amount of light here would gradually

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increase and increase most likely when

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Cooper entered this specific Zone he

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would suddenly encounter a previously

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invisible massive Spike of radiation

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that could very easily kill him assuming

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he wasn't already dead from the accan

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disc plasma or the

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spaghettification there are lots of ways

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you can die when falling into a black

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hole but let's say that he manages to

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get past all of that could he then

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actually attempt that last point to

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speak across time and space using

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gravity honestly it's a little unclear

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the physics Beyond The Event Horizon is

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murky at best so scientists don't really

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know for sure what happens down there

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but strangely it does bear some passing

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resemblance to our current mathematical

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Solutions on the subject our maths as it

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stands says that space curves so much

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that all the paths you can travel Just

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Lead You Down Deeper into the black hole

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but there are some weird scenarios where

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you can end up arriving at points in

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your own past which could allow you to

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influence what you do there which brings

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us once again to the idea of

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paradoxes paradoxes are all through the

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film Interstellar what if Cooper did

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something in the black hole that killed

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his past self that's four kinds of dead

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now for those keeping track thus

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stopping himself from going back in time

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later then he would never have gone back

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to kill his past self thus saving his

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past self's life but that would mean he

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was able to go back so could kill

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himself and on and on it goes in a

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circle the film attempts to get around

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this circle using something known as a

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bootstrap Paradox where everything in

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the film always happened the way it was

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once it was influenced Through Time

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Travel Cooper used the black hole to

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teach people back on Earth data that

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they needed for a gravity equation which

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allowed them to launch Cooper's ship in

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the first place but the film showed that

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Cooper's interdimensional fumblings were

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present at the start of the film too

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Cooper did what he did and he had always

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done it in a way this closes the loop

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but this is a little unsatisfying as it

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still opens the question of what would

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have happened if Cooper had decided not

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to share gravity equation data with the

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past it removes free will as soon as

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Cooper realized that he was in a

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bootstrap Paradox he had to do what he'd

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always done or the whole thing would

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collapse this happens even more broadly

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as we learn that future humans now

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sufficiently Advanced were the ones who

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created the Tesseract that allowed

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humans to be saved in the first place

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but what if they decided to not create

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it then we're back in Paradox territory

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where the universe has to solve a thing

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happening and not happening at the same

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time time we don't really have an answer

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in physics for what happens with that so

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this is an area where Interstellar

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becomes less scientifically certain

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however it does make for a mind-bending

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story in the end despite some

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divergences from science taken for

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dramatic purposes interstella helped

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showcase the fascinating Concepts from

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Modern physics to a mass audience it was

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able to show how time isn't just a rigid

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Arrow but rather as the doctor said a

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wibbly wobbly timey wiy thing going at

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different speeds depending on what

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gravity Fields you are moving through

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there is actually too much in this film

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to fully evaluate in one video so I may

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return to this film one day in that

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second part I'll discuss the planets of

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interstellar and how plausibly habitable

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they really are what did you think about

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Interstellar and the signs it portrayed

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what was your favorite concept from the

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movie let us know in the comments

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below sadly we can't go back in time to

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fix things that have gone wrong or pains

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we felt in the past but that doesn't

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