• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The physics are accurate.

    Space ghosts from the fourth dimension can give you physics advice by wiggling your books?

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      5 hours ago

      They’re not space ghosts, they’re literally the main character interacting with the past from within a black hole, where the whole of spacetime has collapsed into a single point. As the other commenter said, this is the science fiction part.

      Physicists have said that physics as we know it break down in the singularity of a black hole. Kip Thorne signed off on their artistic license plot device of having spacetime collapse into the “tesseract.”

      Anyway, that isn’t what I was referring to when I said “the physics are accurate.” I was only referring to the parts involving the black hole and planets and tidal forces and time dilation, which were what they worked very hard on to get right.

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        5 hours ago

        Kip Thorne signed off on their artistic license plot device of having spacetime collapse into the “tesseract.”

        Well, then, I guess it’s all perfectly real and believable. Next time I see a clock rattle or a bookshelf shake, I’ll know what’s up.