to celebrate the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics and the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the leading scientific journal Nature conducted an interesting survey of physicists around the world. among the many entries , the honor ofPhysicists’Favorite Science Fiction Movie went to two films by one director: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Prestige.
the epitome of scientific imagination: Prestige
released in 2006, Prestige is a thriller about two magicians competing to unlock the secrets of transcendent “teleportation magic” in late 19th-century London. The film features real-life scientist Nikola Tesla, whose cloning technology blurs the line between reality and fantasy. carnegie Mellon professor Barry Luo Callahan says Prestige “takes a bold fictional leap from the scientific knowledge of teleportation” and rekindles the sense of magic and mystery he felt as a child.
taking real science to the extreme: Interstellar
interstellar is a 2014 movie about a journey through a wormhole to explore a planet near a black hole in order to save humanity. What makes it especially appreciated by scientists is that dramatic scenes, such as the appearance of the black hole Gargantua and the time warp, are based on real-world physics theories. “Interstellar is real science, and it’s based on real physics pushed to the limit,” says Claudia de Lamm, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London.
movie is ahead of reality
the computer graphics of the black hole in Interstellar stunned the world because they closely resemble the real-life M87 black hole, which was first observed by humans in 2019 with the Event Horizon Telescope project. This was thanks to the thorough scientific oversight of Nobel Prize-winning physics professor Kip Thorne, who served as a scientific advisor during the film’s production. This perfect marriage of scientific fact and cinematic imagination is why Nolan’s work has such a special resonance with physicists, Nature analyzes.
physicists also cited Star Trek 4 and Back to the Future 2, which dealt with time travel, and Spider-Man: The New Universe, which depicted a parallel universe, as other sci-fi movies that made an impression on them.
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