https://scientificgamer.com Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 https://scientificgamer.com/interstellar-a-rant/#comment-61510 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=4402#comment-61510 I know this is really old at this point but I finally just watched this jaw-droppingly bad movie, so I really appreciate this post. My friend who likes it asked why I couldn’t just suspend disbelief like I do with movies about elves or vampires or something, and I couldn’t find a way to phrase it, so I love what you wrote about hard and soft sci-fi here. No one comes out of Star Wars thinking light sabers are real, but there are now apparently thousands of Nolan fans who genuinely believe you could fly safely into a supermassive black hole, because red-shirt scientist in this movie said their event horizons are “gentle.” Failing to mention that they have infinite gravity, and accretion discs 100x hotter than the sun, and interiors hovering just above absolute 0. There is no more inhospitable place for humans to “construct” a “tesseract” or whatever they’re meant to have done. But then the movie needed them to fly into the black hole to “solve the problem of gravity” which is preventing human beings from leaving earth and traveling through the black hole — to which I say: huh? Why is reconciling astrophysics and quantum mechanics required for evacuating humans from earth? Hey but fortunately the sassy robot is able to pull all the “data” he needs in about 5 minutes so Cooper can then transmit complex equations to his daughter using morse code delivered through the second hand of a watch. Are you *kidding* me? It’s a disaster even without the Gargantua-sized bootstrap paradox plot hole (seriously Bill and Ted made more of an effort with the branching paths of linear time than this film did). Anyway I know I’m preaching to the choir, it’s just nice to find someone else in the universe who had the same response I did. (Perhaps I was DRAWN HERE by some UNQUANTIFIABLE FORCE we just DON’T YET UNDERSTAND.)

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