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The Science of Extreme Time Dilation in Interstellar

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For an uninterrupted viewing experience, we recommend watching our full-length Interstellar documentary video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9uok6m3G8 PS: Due to copyright restrictions from Paramount Pictures, certain scenes in this video were edited after upload. Some original music tracks have been replaced with alternate audio, and a few segments were removed entirely. If you'd like to see more of this kind of video, consider supporting our work by becoming a member today! https://www.youtube.com/BeeyondIdeas/join Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beeyond.ideas/ 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Recap of Einstein's relativity 2:14 Gravitational redshift 4:46 Time dilation in Interstellar 6:27 One second on Miller's equals one day on Earth 8:32 The problem with this extreme time dilation #interstellar

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marcelladörschner483 1 week, 3 days ago

I didn't understand everything but this was a great movie to think with

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aimée.foucher 1 week, 4 days ago

The sudden editing made me feel I’m in some time dilation

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abeerbath407 1 week, 6 days ago

I like the video, but I dislike the delay and cut off parts while explaining a scene or a concept.

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océane.blin 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Is time dialation anything like scope parallax because if so, I'll never see the target solution.

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sergioserna599 2 weeks, 3 days ago

As much as I love this scene — and honestly the whole of Interstellar — Miller’s planet has always been the one part that confused me a bit. I completely understand the time dilation caused by the black hole, but surely a planet that close to Gargantua with that extreme level of time dilation wouldn’t realistically sustain life. What also bugs me is that the crew were supposed to be brilliant scientists and pioneers. Once they knew that 1 hour on the planet equals 7 years back on Earth, wouldn’t they immediately realise that Miller herself had only been on the planet for maybe an hour or two from her own perspective? If she landed 8–10 years earlier in Earth time, that’s nowhere near long enough to properly study or verify whether the planet was actually viable. And the giant waves shouldn’t have been a surprise either. We already understand tides on Earth are caused by gravity from the Moon, so a water planet orbiting that close to a massive black hole should obviously have insane tidal effects. You’d think they would have predicted that before even landing. I read The Science of Interstellar and loved most of the scientific explanations, but this is the one part that still feels off to me. Realistically, scientists that smart probably would’ve skipped Miller’s planet altogether — or at least abandoned the mission once they saw the conditions in orbit. Also, life on Earth took billions of years to evolve. On Miller’s planet, because of the time dilation, only a tiny amount of local time would’ve actually passed, so complex life evolving there doesn’t really make much sense either.

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cynthia_garcia 3 weeks, 4 days ago

600 trillion vibrations a second. My mans how are you going to skate over this statement, I had to pause the video just to sit in awe for a minute

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tracey_ramos 1 month ago

girls experience time dialation everyday when they get ready.

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steven.gonzalez 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why do some peoples audios get cut off at the begginning? Lol

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vasudhamalhotra949 2 months ago

There are parts of this video where the audio and video DOES NOT align.

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brianmartin440 2 months ago

This video is cut terribly but the content is good

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gaelhenriquedapaz405 1 year, 4 months ago

Your abrupt cuts are incredibly distracting, it ruins the video.

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shawnbird242 1 year, 5 months ago

I need some more re births to understand time and einstein's relativity theory

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william_grant 1 year, 5 months ago

8:42 This is exactly what I felt the moment I heard about time dilation

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andrew_montgomery 1 year, 6 months ago

Gravity vs copyright which is stronger.

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victoria_elliott 1 year, 10 months ago

I concur. Taking my young kids to a several hours long friends birthday party will exhibit a similar phenomenon. Almost like time perception is pulling in opposite directions depending on perspective. Add several years for having to pretend you yourself are also enjoying it & several more for making smalltalk with other parents!!! 😂

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pietrawhisper21 1 year, 10 months ago

The idea behind the video is great

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john.jensen 2 years, 2 months ago

"Time is relative."

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keith_davis 2 years, 8 months ago

No matter how many videos, or someone explains it to me, this will always boggle my mind. Yet i'm always fascinated.

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courtneyatlas82 2 years, 10 months ago

They must be creating black holes as science experiments at school because time passes super slow there.

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georgesnight77 2 years, 11 months ago

I’ll just gonna pretend that i understand everything.