Timeline for Interstellar: non-breaking waves on Miller
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| May 17, 2015 at 16:11 | answer | added | Jones | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 8:00 | vote | accept | Koldito | ||
| Feb 3, 2015 at 0:08 | answer | added | Hypnosifl | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 16:17 | vote | accept | Koldito | ||
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 15:28 | comment | added | Richard Peter Targett | interesting quesiton, even more so interesting responses. im no science major so I'll just tip you guys off. There's a book 'The Science of Interstellar'. check it out maybe there [is] an attempt to explain this. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 12:58 | comment | added | DevSolar | @Koldito: Correct, I grant you as much. However, SciFi handwaving aside, Earth (having an iron-nickel core) is already pretty dense as far as planets are concerned. Also, you'd pretty rapidly get to the point were that huge a tidal wave on that small a planet would result in the water going into orbit. ;-) | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | Koldito | Not necessarily. You could have near-1g conditions on a small planet, so long as the bulk of the planet is dense enough. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 12:24 | comment | added | DevSolar | I haven't seen the movie, and don't have the data on the planet Miller on hand. But be aware that, on earth, a wave that is "stationary" with regards to the sun would move along the equator at ~1666 km/h (40,000 km equatorial circumference / 24 hours rotation period) -- well over the speed of sound. The YT clip I saw didn't make it seem so. For your hypothesis to work, Miller would have to be much smaller (would be contradicting the near-1g conditions observed), or rotating much slower. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 11:30 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 23 | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 11:29 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | As for the night/day aspect, I don't remember there being any explanation as to how the planet was lit up in the first place. I'm talking a sun or whatever ... if planet Miller is rotating around a sun, which would obviously put it in the "goldie locks zone" (otherwise, why would they be checking the planet in the first place), wouldn't Gargantua be affecting (or have affected) the sun as well? This movie was deep on the people interaction, but left some things to be desired in the science portion of the script. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 11:02 | comment | added | PointlessSpike | I imagine the crew would have experienced adverse effects if it affected the water like that. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 10:56 | history | asked | Koldito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |