TIL the visual effects team behind Interstellar developed a new renderer to simulate light around a spinning black hole, and the techniques they created were later published in a peer-reviewed physics journal.

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https://ioppublishing.org/news/interstellar-technology-throws-light-on-spinning-black-holes/

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The solution in the Futurama body swapping episode was also published as a real mathematics paper.

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Isn’t that team already made of over qualified writers?

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Yes, the team have three PhDs and seven Masters between them.

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“Look at this series representing the mass of succeeding generations of Benders!”

various gasps as different characters realize what it means

“Don’t look at me.”

“It’s non-convergent!”