The movie Interstellar opened on November 7th, 2014, and became a hot topic of debate among both filmgoers and scientific circles. Due to its content, imagery, and the scientific aspect of the story, audiences have comprehensive articles for film reviews. An example is an article and infographic on Evrim Ağacı that you can view here for a good study of the film.
The most striking part about the film’s imagery was its description of black holes and wormholes, to the extent that the film’s advisors, Professor Kip Thorne and his team, claim that they made a discovery while preparing the visuals for the film. We did some research of our own.
We asked Astrophysicist Ersin Göğüş of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences for his opinion. Göğüş finds this claim particularly interesting because a much more detailed version of the study shown in one scene was compiled by Professor Feryal Özel, who was a visiting professor at Sabancı University from 2004 and 2005, Professor Dimitrios Psaltis and their team with the parallel processors installed at the University of Arizona. You can view the interview that acts as the source of this surprising claim here.
We asked President Nihat Berker about Interstellar and other recent films, and he said: “I watched Interstellar like I watched theLord of the Rings films. But speaking of other recent films, Winter Sleep is one of the best films I have seen in my life. It is an extremely accurate portrayal of the Turkish –even European– pseudo-intellectual man. Unutursam Fısılda has us crying in the end without grief; it is nice. I found Kayıp Kız repulsive. At a time when there is so much violence against women in Turkey and the world, telling a story where a woman plans violence through such deception is unacceptable.”
