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How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"

Alienating the Audience

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The Paradox of Time Dilation

Christopher Nolan wanted to keep astrophysicist Thorne in the film. The script is loosely based on a story that kept Thorne who's an astrophysicist, I believe he has written originally. In one of my favorite childhood movies, which is very 80s movie, is Flight of the Navigator where he's basically been kidnapped by a UFO and is returned. And it's a very charming, very, very fun movie. But this isn't even theoretical. We've proved this with atomic clocks at this point because it's affected as we'll come up in the film a lot.

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