Anyone know yet if Kip Thorne has commented on Interstellar yet? If I remember correctly, wasn't he the one who designed the wormhole sequence in Contact?
Any Kip Thorne Interstellar Interviews/Thoughts Yet?
Contact was Sagan's thing, I believe.
EDIT: Oh, wait, you're right. Some quick Google-ing brought this up:
And the only thing I can see from him talking Interstellar is to say he can't talk about Interstellar.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013 ... ntist-film
EDIT: Oh, wait, you're right. Some quick Google-ing brought this up:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_a ... 0902c.htmlCarl Sagan, when writing Contact, asked Kip Thorne (one of the world's leading relativists) how to transport a person to distant stars, have her come back to find that no time had passed on Earth (which is in both the book and the movie).
From this question, Kip Thorne revitalized the whole modern field of the study of wormholes, a field which had lain dormant for a few decades until Thorne figured out how to make a wormhole people could actually travel through.
And the only thing I can see from him talking Interstellar is to say he can't talk about Interstellar.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013 ... ntist-film
Right - nobody can talk about Interstellar yet. However, I thought it would be cool to hear Thorne talk about the movie without giving anything away, i.e. will this movie be more like a spectacle action movie or a spectacle serious sci-fi movie? You're right that Contact was Sagan's, and I didn't actually know until recently that Thorne was involved in the Contact wormhole sequence, etc .
