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Has Christopher Nolan considered working with another Nobel Prize Winner for Physics like Roger Penrose or Peter Higgs like he did with Kip Thorne in Interstellar?

Interstellar

Personally, I would prefer Roger Penrose who won in 2020, but working with Peter Higgs who won in 2013 could be amazing as well! I honestly think Christopher Nolan needs to work with another Nobel Prize winner for physics and when you see what he did with Interstellar, I think it's obvious to see why.

Interstellar was made by Christopher Nolan and Kip Thorne, who are both fucking geniuses in their respective crafts. Nolan is one of the greatest Directors in film of our time, and Kip Thorne literally won a Nobel Prize in Physics three years after this movie came out (for gravity waves of all things). Kip Thorne knows very well that there are two pillars of modern science: Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, that are very famously incompatible. This incompatibility is very famous because none other than Albert Einstein labels Quantum Physics incomplete and talks a little shit despite being one of the Founding Fathers of Quantum Physics, calling it "spukhafte Fernwirkungen," which means "spooky actions at a distance," which is basically Einstein's main problem with Quantum Physics in the EPR Paradox. Now, since Einstein is the Michael Jordan of Scientists, he obviously has the right to talk a little shit since he definitely deserves his GOAT status for Special Relativity/ General Relativity. The EPR Paradox takes an example of Quantum Entanglement of Bell particles (elementary particles) at extremely great distances (although recently, Sabine Hossenfelder reminded Journalists on the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics - Bell Inequality Violations, that it's the quantum interaction that's primarily at issue in EPR, not the entanglement). Einstein uses this perceived absurdity to present his own Interpretation of Quantum Physics (summed up: "Missing variables that we can't detect are causing it to happen, not the Copenhagen interpretation which involves the Born Rule and is very indeterminate"). Of course Einstein might feel some kind of way about quantum physics given his interest and bias with Relativity since he's the one that discovered it and all. Einstein is also very much a Determinist, so you can see his problems with the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.

By the end of the movie, Murphy Cooper really is just as important to the story as Joseph Cooper was, and probably a lot more so. Both Joseph Cooper and Murphy Cooper had to go through all of the events that they did to produce the ending result. According to the movie, Murphy Cooper is the one that reconciles our two pillar of modern science, which apparently leads Humanity to the ability to build livable habitation in space. In present day, this would probably qualify Murphy Cooper for the next five years of Nobel Prizes for Physics given the alternative was probably human extinction. Actually, at that point, they might just present all future Nobel Prize Award Winners for Physics the Murphy Cooper Trophy similar to the way the NBA Finals MVP Award is given with the Bill Russell Trophy. Humanity has come up with String Theory/ M Theory to try to solve this amazing problem and has sadly come up with zilch.

Without Kip Thorne's involvement in Interstellar, Nolan would never been able to produce these kind of stakes and/or this sort of result. I feel he achieved bringing the science to sci-fi just as well (if not more so) than 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a Marvel tired world, maybe there would be an interest in movies like Interstellar and 2001 who at least try to stick closer to the science part of sci-fi. I vote for Christopher Nolan and Roger Penrose! Nolan/Penrose Microtubles Orchestrated Objective Reduction in 2028! :)

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u/newmath11 avatar

I just asked him and he said “I’ve told you to stop calling this fucking number. This is a dominos.”

Don't know, but it'd be cool if he did. I loved the fact that so much of the movie was rooted in real Physics. I got that The Science of Interstellar, and whilebi haven't completed it, what I did read and actually understand was impressive. I loved the movie as a result of Thorne and Nolan working together. Interstellar is my favorite movie.

Peter Higgs died a few weeks ago 😞

No.

ultimately the story will have to drive everything. even interstellar takes insane liberties with physics before arriving at its finale. the physics is merely a convincing wallpaper of an excellent, but fictional film.

u/SenecaMozi avatar

Kip Thorne was involved because he knew Lynda Obst, who would become a producer of the film, and the two of them conceived of the idea well before Nolan was involved. Nolan didn't seek out a scientist. He joined the project that already had one involved.

The reasons you don't see more scientists involved with movies is that they rarely want to put that much effort into making a movie, they don't know what it takes to make a good movie, and movie producers don't want to drown audiences in scientific details.