Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Wormhole Pickup

I'm sorry Neil deGrasse Tyson.  In your science accounting of the film Interstellar - embracing a wormhole as good science, while bemoaning driving a pickup truck with a flat tire in a corn field is daft.  That said, bravo for making time dilation more palatable to the public. 

I still hold great respect for the original Planet of the Apes movie based on La Planète des singes.  While that film franchise clearly leveraged time dilation as back story, albeit with a rather incoherent timeline, it didn't stoop to junk science time travel tricks to propel the plot.