Science on Screen®: Rage Against the Dying of the Light

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Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi odyssey follows a former pilot recruited for a last-ditch mission through a wormhole near Saturn, leading to a distant system orbiting the black hole Gargantua, where potential habitable worlds offer humanity’s final hope. Blending theoretical physics with emotional spectacle, Nolan foregrounds the black hole as both cosmic engine and narrative crucible, its extreme gravity distorting time, fracturing causality, and ultimately enabling a paradoxical intervention across dimensions, where survival hinges on what can be carried back from beyond the event horizon.

Drexel University Ph.D. Candidate Thomas Cope will be on hand to explain the nature of black holes in his presentation, “Rage Against the Dying of the Light.”

SCIENCE ON SCREEN® PRESENTS:

Interstellar (2014)| “Rage Against the Dying of the Light”: Black holes are not scary, time is funky and tesseracts are real. Ph.D. Candidate Thomas Cope will discuss the physics of the movie Interstellar including time dilation, gravitational waves, and black holes and their accretion disks.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Thomas Cope is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Physics at Drexel University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen studying Accretion disk physics and binary black hole dynamics. He now specializes in Biophysics research on sickle cell anemia and Hemoglobin fiber structures.

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Genre Science Fiction
Director Christopher Nolan
Released 2014
Runtime 2h 49m
Rated PG-13
Studio Paramount
CountryUSA

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87% Audience Score

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