Interstellar (Part 2) : Episode 39
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Interstellar (Part 2)
What: Interstellar gives us lots to talk about again! Here we discuss the second part of the movie: the part with all of the physics!
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Matt Damon, Michael Caine, Casey Afflek, Wes Bentley
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Show Notes
Gravity and Black Holes
More Kip Thorne. Wormholes. Detecting gravitational anomalies.
Time Dilation
Einstein. Train rides. Relativity. Frames of reference. Frame dragging. Time as an expendable resource.
Crazy Planetary Adventures
Water planet is the stuff of Christopher’s nightmares. Frozen clouds!
So Many Dimensions
Abstraction of extra dimensions into fewer. Tesseracts. Carl Sagan’s genius powers of explanation.
Time Travel Paradoxes
Predestination paradox? Self-consistent single timelines.
Love
Multidimensional beings and the power of love. Social utility and bonding, etc.
Space Settlement
O’Niell cylinders. Another call-in from Liam Ginty of Voices From L5.
Goodbyes
See you on the other side, Coop.
See you there, slick.
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