SvennoJ said:
I was just reading through the comment section of that article. Fascinating discussions I can hardly understand half of. I didn't know about Kerr black holes before this movie or that there were so many competing mathematical and astrophysical theories about them. Too bad the comment section closed just when they started hammering the guy on what would actually be needed to get off the planet back to 'normal' time. |
This movie released just in time for me lol. Three of my credits as a physics major for this semester are on a research topic of my choice. I was fascinated with the concept of Kerr Black-Holes after watching Steins: Gate and then reading about how the ergosphere allows one to extract energy from the black hole. So I decided to make my project about describing the various types of black hole states: charged/uncharged, rotating/non-rotating. Of course that meant I had to actually "learn" a lot of geometry/topology that I was not familiar with, at least on the conceptual level. General Relativty I have to say is much more intriguing and beautiful than even Special Relativity. I hope to take a proper General Relativity course next year (my Senior year.) Anyway, I just finished the project, and will be editing it for a few weeks and then I must present it to my class in a lecture format. So this movie just reinvigorated my motivation. I think I might add a little tidbit or use some scenes in my powerpoint. Or I can tinker with the mathematica program used to model the black-hole in the movie, but I doubt I'd get too far with that.
