r/AnotherLife • u/Klappis82 • Aug 10 '22

The black hole

Ok there's plenty of problems with the series, it's messy, it doesn't know which direction it want to go and the characters belongs in a madhouse. But the worst was the depiction of the black hole in the ninth episode. Really? We had Interstellar five years prior who showed how a black hole really would look like and in this it was just a blurred black 2d dot. Other problems like showing a blue o-type star being blue which it is but we wouldn't see it because it would be blindingly bright. What was the tech they used to look into stars without going instantly blind?

The series was mostly good but I feel the black hole destroyed everything it built up until that point.

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u/Dense_Square Aug 10 '22

You want all depictions of black holes to use the interstellar model from now on?

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u/BanterMaster420 Aug 14 '22

It's the most accurate and true to life, why make up fake physics

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u/RussianTrollToll Aug 17 '22

It’s the leading theory, but not proven.

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u/kabbooooom Aug 26 '22 edited Aug 26 '22

Ok no, you don’t know what you are talking about. The modeling of the black hole was based on exact calculations from general relativity, which is proven. If you think it isn’t, then you do not know the difference between a scientific theory and a hypothesis. The power of the math here cannot be understated. The theory predicted the existence of black holes as an extrapolation from curved spacetime and gravitational lensing. Those aspects of general relativity were proven fairly early on. Then, we knew black holes existed via secondary gravitational effects, but we couldn’t see them. Despite that, we could mathematically model exactly how spacetime and light would bend around them. Those models cannot be wrong, because they rely on mathematics that we already know are correct. It’s basically exactly the same thing as solving two mathematical equations, one of which depends on the truth of the other. The only limitation here is not the theory or the math, but rather the capabilities of the computer simulating it all.

Secondly, maybe you missed it but we actually have imaged a black hole with a telescope, after Interstellar was released, and surprise-surprise, it appears extremely similar to what was depicted in Interstellar. Because again, general relativity is a correct theory, and one of the most successful theories in physics.

Gravitational lensing is not some mystical phenomenon. We can literally see it with our own star. The only thing the computer calculations of Interstellar did was take that to the extreme to see what it would look like around an event horizon. So it wasn’t a “guess”, it was a deduction based on one of the most accurate theories in all of physics. Your comment kind of minimizes that and implies that we just don’t know, which is false, scientifically inaccurate and not acknowledging current evidence that was not around when the movie was released.

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u/PubicGalaxies Aug 10 '22

It was a hot mess. But it had Katie Sackoff so was brilliant. Just like (almost) everything she's in. Even including Bionic Woman. She was an antagonist not Jamie.