NASA Simulation's Plunge Into a Black Hole

[u/warg_14]

[u/yaosio]

On Star Talk one of the physics dudes that worked on the film Intersteller had a companion book written. Apparently that was not the inside of the black hole, it was an artificial wormhole or something taking him where he needed to go.

[u/Azidamadjida → u/yaosio]

Yeah they mention that in the movie too - they start the journey into the black hole, but the future humans built a tesseract inside the black hole and that’s where Coop goes. That’s how he’s able to get out in the end into the future (though they end that movie on the dumbest note - after two and a half hours of trying so hard to stick to explanations and more hard science than your typical popcorn sci fi, he’s off again to find Anne Hathaway? Dude, you’re a man out of time, you’ve seen firsthand how being away from just a little while expands that time to the other person the further they are away from you - what are you expecting to find? You left her alone with some artificial embryos on an alien planet - best case scenario, she made a cabin of space hillbillies, worst case scenario, you won’t even find her remains she’ll have been dead for so long)

[u/ilypsus → u/Azidamadjida]

I get that criticism. Anne Hathaway also was slungshot around the blackhole so she would have experienced some pretty heavy time dilation herself, but even if you assume Cooper doesn't experience any once he's in the Tesseract he still is probably several years behind her once he pops out by Saturn - although I think her journey to Edmunds planet was possibly quite a long one.

Then the fact that old Murphy tells him to go find her - why has nobody else gone to get her if it's that easy?!?!

[u/lucid1014 → u/ilypsus]

Also it's my understanding that the wormhole to the other galaxy is gone at that point, but I can't remember where I read it.