Universe Colloquium: The Science of the Movie Interstellar

by Andreas Müller (Technische Universität München)

Wednesday 11 Nov 2015, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room (Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstrasse 2, Garching)

Did you see the movie "Interstellar" (2014)? It deals with the future of mankind. The Earth is dying and therefore some teams were sent to search for a habitable planet. The famous relativist Kip Thorne, professor emeritus from CalTech, was executive producer and scientific consultant. Thanks to him and to the director Christopher Nolan as well as his brother Jonathan Nolan who wrote the screenplay, Interstellar is a fascinating, scientifically correct and very stimulating film. The science-fiction movie deals with interstellar space travel, warping of space and time, time travel, black holes and wormholes. In this talk we will have a close look to the science of Interstellar and ask whether the phenomena shown in the film could really happen in this way in nature – and in our future. The Universe Colloquium is followed by a social gathering with wine and cheese.