Foreword
Preface
1 A Scientist in Hollywood: The Genesis of Interstellar
I. FOUNDATIONS
2 Our Universe in Brief
3 The Laws That Control
4 Warped Time and Space, and Tidal Gravity
5 Black Holes
II. GARGANTUA
6 Gargantua’s Anatomy
7 Gravitational Slingshots
8 Imaging Gargantua
9 Disks and Jets
10 Accident Is the First Building Block of Evolution
III. DISASTER ON EARTH
11 Blight
12 Gasping for Oxygen
13 Interstellar Travel
IV. THE WORMHOLE
14 Wormholes
15 Visualizing Interstellar’s Wormhole
16 Discovering the Wormhole: Gravitational Waves
V. EXPLORING GARGANTUA’S ENVIRONS
17 Miller’s Planet
18 Gargantua’s Vibrations
19 Mann’s Planet
20 The Endurance
VI. EXTREME PHYSICS
21 The Fourth and Fifth Dimensions
22 Bulk Beings
23 Confining Gravity
24 Gravitational Anomalies
25 The Professor’s Equation
26 Singularities and Quantum Gravity
VII. CLIMAX
27 The Volcano’s Rim
28 Into Gargantua
29 The Tesseract
30 Messaging the Past
31 Lifting Colonies off Earth
Where Can You Learn More?
Some Technical Notes
Acknowledgments
Figure Credits
Bibliography
Index of People
Index of Subjects
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具體描述
A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights—many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar—describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible.
Interstellar and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14).
用戶評價
##還算有趣的follow-up reading.
##買瞭，等貨。 --- 嗯嗯讀完很久瞭，忘記把想讀改成讀過瞭。
##買瞭，等貨。 --- 嗯嗯讀完很久瞭，忘記把想讀改成讀過瞭。
##從比較基礎的東西講起，但看得還是挺纍，有些也沒看明白。黑洞行星的軌跡太牛瞭。
##神一樣的電影背後神一樣的書，雖然為瞭娛樂效果做瞭很多退讓。有些地方沒看懂，以後買瞭紙質書再看。最後還有每章的推薦閱讀好貼心~I love Kip Thorne！
##平易近人。與Kip Thorne可算是"相逢恨晚"瞭 :)
##By physical laws we humans discover decipher master and use to control our own fate, dealing with mist catastrophe the universe may throw at us.
##感到智商受瞭碾壓。評分這麼高，諸位想必都是看懂瞭的。最後鬥膽揣測一下，Kip Thorne寫這本書感覺像是在說，“看吧我在電影裏應用的科學理論和假設都是高大上並且準確的你們看不懂電影就來看書看不懂書那我也沒轍瞭反正我就是好萊塢最屌的物理學傢[攤手]”。
##By physical laws we humans discover decipher master and use to control our own fate, dealing with mist catastrophe the universe may throw at us.