Questions tagged [interstellar]
2014 American science fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan about a crew of astronauts searching for a new home for a dying human society.
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Why did they leave the Endurance outside the time dilation zone?
When visiting Miller's planet, the crew decides for the spaceship to remain in an orbit around the black hole instead of an orbit around Miller's planet, so that the spaceship is effectively OUTSIDE ...
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What did Murph achieve with Coop's data? [duplicate]
Maybe it isn't meant to be known. At the end of Interstellar we see a colony off Saturn. Although it wasn't explicitly stated, it appears at least some of the population of Earth was able to be ...
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Why did cooper communicate using morse code, when he could have directly written the numbers using sand
In the scene where Cooper sends NASA coordinates using Morse code with the help of sand. Why did he use Morse code specifically, why didn't he write the numbers directly?
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How did Cooper know the quantum data is what Murph needed to solve the gravity equation?
In Interstellar Professor Brand reveals only to Murph (on his deathbed) that Plan A, solving the equation was 'impossible'. I am struggling to reconcile;
A) How Murph knows that it is quantum data ...
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Is there a paradox lurking in Interstellar? [duplicate]
When Cooper (the daughter) worked out the equations which allegedly assured the survival of the human race on Earth, she threw her notes from the balcony in the space center: "EUREKA!"
Now, ...
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How is possible in Interstellar to receive the coordinates in the falling sand from the future?
How is this possible?
If Cooper didn't receive the coordinates he would never go to NASA and he would't have been on the mission. Then would be no one to send the coordinates back in time.
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In Interstellar, why did NASA hold Coop away from his daughter when he first was brought into the NASA facility?
There is a short scene where Coop is being guarded by a TARS (maybe it was the other machine) after arriving at the NASA facility in the middle of the night. Why was he kept alone in that room, away ...
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What role was Irrfan Khan supposed to play?
I heard in lot of sources the information that Irrfan Khan was offered a role in Interstellar which he turned down due to the requirement of an extended stay in the US, when he couldn't have served ...
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How come the scientist in the second planet is not super old?
When Cooper (McConaughey) and Brand (Hathaway) return from the ground of the first planet in Interstellar, the scientist (Romilly?) that stayed in the ship aged 23 years because of the effect of ...
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How were Miller or Mann able to send information from their planet but Romilly couldn't send observations on the black hole?
When Cooper, Brand, and Doyle go to Miller's planet in Interstellar, Romilly stays behind to study the black hole.
After their arrival, Romilly says that he tried to send information to Prof. Brand ...
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What does this conversation about ghosts mean?
In Interstellar Cooper and his duaghter have the following conversation:
Murph: Grandpa says you can get ghosts Dad.
Cooper: Maybe grandpa's a little too close to being one himself.
What is this ...
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Time machine in Interstellar movie
I've read these Stack Exchange articles and am assuming that Interstellar could be a time travel movie.
Cooper's Time in Space & Time travel in Interstellar explained.
Wikipedia states that,
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How did the information from the black hole do this? [duplicate]
I've just seen Interstellar and I have two questions:
How did the information from the black hole save humanity?
What was that information about? I would rather not hear that "it's about the answer" I'...
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How would someone "escape" a black hole? [duplicate]
In the 2014 movie "Interstellar" the main character Cooper gets trapped in a black hole and relays data about it to his daughter Murph. What I don't get is if nothing, including light, can escape a ...
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Why are there not any MRI machines available in Interstellar?
In Interstellar, Cooper mentions that they don't have any MRI machines while talking to his kid's teacher. The dialogue goes as follows:
One of those useless machines they used to make was called an ...
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