Tacit Ronin
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There is an orgy going on at Nolanfaps, concerning a trailer 5.
Check these lists depending on your location and if it says 1570 then you are good.
US - http://www.lfexaminer.com/theaUSA.htm
International - http://www.lfexaminer.com/theaintl.htm
Actually they just put out a full official list of theaters playing the different film formats.
Which is good because I have a local IMAX that could have played the film in 15/70 but are playing it digitally instead but some of their other screens are playing the film in 35mm. Very odd.
https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/ways-to-see
Check these lists depending on your location and if it says 1570 then you are good.
US - http://www.lfexaminer.com/theaUSA.htm
International - http://www.lfexaminer.com/theaintl.htm
Just so you guys know,
Calculating the bending of light due to black holes is actually quite a difficult calculation.
I wonder if the black holes will be rotating?
Most people don't know that black hokes rotate so if they see one in a movie they'll lose their ****.
Just so you guys know,
Calculating the bending of light due to black holes is actually quite a difficult calculation.
I wonder if the black holes will be rotating?
Most people don't know that black holes rotate so if they see one in a movie they'll lose their ****.

A few years ago, I did some reading on (hypothetically) traversable wormholes. (Actually, this area of research was begun by Kip Thorne when Carl Sagan asked him for technical advice for Contact.) Anyhoo, much of the science was over my head; but my understanding was that such wormholes cannot exist within black holes if they are to be practically traversable. (I.e., even if you could survive the trip, the black holes event horizon is the point-of-no-return. So its like being trapped in a subway train. You can travel from one station to another; but you cant get out of the subway system.)
What you need (apparently) is to find a black hole singularity that is no longer inside a black hole (a so-called naked singularity). This gets you access to a wormhole without all the nastiness that comes with event horizons, etc. However, a naked point singularity is no good because a spaceship cant travel through a point. What you need to find is a naked ring singularity. Such a singularity is produced when the point is drawn out into a ring by centrifugal force - and a spaceship can, theoretically, go through the ring. And the centrifugal spin is, in turn, provided by a rotating black hole (which has subsequently dissipated).
So presumably, what Interstellar depicts is a scientifically accurate representation of a ring singularity/wormhole mouth - and not a black hole, per se.![]()