{"id":8885,"date":"2014-10-27T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:32:19","slug":"interstallars-proof-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/interstallars-proof-of-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar&#8217;s proof of gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out that the CGI in &#8216;Interstellar&#8217; and the ray tracing software of the black hole, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole\/\">actually confirmed theories about gravity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the end, Nolan got elegant images that advance the story. Thorne got a movie that teaches a mass audience some real, accurate science. But he also got something he didn&#8217;t expect: a scientific discovery. ?This is our observational data,? he says of the movie&#8217;s visualizations. ?That&#8217;s the way nature behaves. Period.? Thorne says he can get at least two published articles out of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VzE6bKIKK3A\">Remind me again<\/a> how?accurate Sandra Bullock&#8217;s Gravity was?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out that the CGI in &#8216;Interstellar&#8217; and the ray tracing software of the black hole, actually confirmed theories about gravity. In the end, Nolan got elegant images that advance the story. Thorne got a movie that teaches a mass audience some real, accurate science. But he also got something he didn&#8217;t expect: a scientific discovery. ?This is our observational data,? he says of the movie&#8217;s visualizations. ?That&#8217;s the way nature behaves. Period.? Thorne says he can get at least two published articles out of it. Remind me again how?accurate Sandra Bullock&#8217;s Gravity was?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[866,3850,5161,3437],"class_list":["post-8885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-multimedia","tag-cgi","tag-gravity","tag-interstellar","tag-science","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}