(SPOILERS) Please explain me Interstellar loop

One other loophole that bugged me was that how were the ice clouds hanging in the air?
If they are frozen then they ought to fall down due to gravity.
Or was the gravity on that planet not strong enough (which seems unlikely)?
This is theoretically possible if the solid (frozen cloud in this case) is less dense than the gas (the air/atmosphere on that planet). But how probable is it find a composition like that and how feasible such an atmosphere is for human sustenance is another question altogether.
 
Gravity was less than Earth hence you could see that they were able to float a little.
Nope, even then it's not possible. Kip Thorne explained that in one of his interviews.

Q: Is there anywhere the moviemakers strayed outside your guidelines?

A: Not seriously. The one place where I am the least comfortable is on [a] planet where they have these ice clouds. These structures go beyond what I think the material strength of ice would be able to support. But I’d say if that’s the most egregious violation of physical law, they’ve done very, very well. There’s some artistic license there. Every time I watch the movie, that’s the one place where I cringe. I don’t think I’ve ever told anybody that.
http://news.sciencemag.org/people-e...rstellar-spills-backstory-and-scene-makes-him
 
Ice wasn't floating[DOUBLEPOST=1417776349][/DOUBLEPOST]@blkrb0t saar please explain me time travel thingy, wiki didn't help
OK, I'll give you one more example saar (traal is more apt for you though). Terminator. John Connor sends Kyle Reese to the past to save his mother, Sarah Connor, and himself from being killed. Kyle Reese is John Connor's father. So, how did John Connor get born in the first place? The answer is a casual loop. That's the paradox.

Substitute Kyle Reese with the information sent by Cooper in Interstellar.
 
Intersteallar is not actually time travel movie. When you became 5D, everything just happens at the same time. Past, present and future. Whatever happened in past, will happen. And whatever gonna happen in future, does happen. Think of whole thing is a loaf of bread since Big Bang. And each slice represents spacetime. In 5D, you get full bread, with access to all time. You can access any time.

In Interstellar, he does not go back into time. He passes his message/code to past via gravity.

Paradox appears when you think how he was put into Tesseract by 'them', not because what he did in Tesseract.
 
Intersteallar is not actually time travel movie. When you became 5D, everything just happens at the same time. Past, present and future. Whatever happened in past, will happen. And whatever gonna happen in future, does happen. Think of whole thing is a loaf of bread since Big Bang. And each slice represents spacetime. In 5D, you get full bread, with access to all time. You can access any time.

In Interstellar, he does not go back into time. He passes his message/code to past via gravity.

Paradox appears when you think how he was put into Tesseract by 'them', not because what he did in Tesseract.


This is enlightening. Thanks for the explanation.
 
Blight -> Kills other lives/plants -> Dust Storms

Now before you ask what caused Blight, you have to read Interstellar book by Kip Thorne, where he shares his discussion with biologists and speculates how blight could have happened.

fck it, here is relevant convo:

Baltimore: When faced with catastrophes like these, our only hope for dealing with them is advanced science and technology. If, politically, we don’t invest in science and technology, or we hobble them by anti-intellectual ideologies such as denial of evolution, the very source of these catastrophes, we may find ourselves without the solutions we need.

And then there is blight—the consequence of many of these scenarios.

Blight
Blight is a general term for most any disease in a plant that is caused by a pathogen.

Baltimore: If you want something to wipe out humanity, there might be no better way than a blight that attacks plants. We are dependent on plants to eat. Yes, we can eat animals or fish instead, but they ate plants.

Meyerowitz: It might be sufficient for the blight just to kill off the grasses and nothing else. Grasses are the basis of most of our agriculture: rice, corn, barley, sorghum, wheat. And most animals that we eat feed on grasses.

Meyerowitz: We already live in a world where 50 percent of the food grown is destroyed by pathogens, and it’s much higher than that in Africa. Fungi, bacteria, viruses,… they all can be pathogens. The East Coast used to be covered with chestnut trees. They are no more. They were killed by a blight. The species of banana preferred by most people in the eighteenth century was wiped out by a blight. The replacement species, the Cavendish banana, today is being threatened by blight.

Kip: I thought that blights are specialists that attack only one narrow group of plants and don’t jump to others.

Leadbetter: There are also generalist blights. There seems to be a tradeoff between being a generalist that attacks many species and a specialist that attacks only a few. For the specialist blight, the lethality can be turned up really high; it can knock out, say, 99 percent of a very specific group of plants. For the generalist, the range of plants attacked is much broader, but its lethality for any one plant in that range might be much smaller. That’s a pattern we see again and again in Nature.

Lynda: Could you have a generalist blight that becomes much more lethal?

Meyerowitz: Something like that has happened before. Early in the Earth’s history, when cyanobacteria started making oxygen, thereby changing radically the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, they managed to kill most everything else on Earth.

Leadbetter: But the oxygen was a lethal byproduct, a poison, produced by the cyanobacteria; not a generalist pathogen.

Baltimore: We may not have seen it, but I can imagine a very lethal specialist pathogen becoming a lethal generalist. It could spread the range of plants it attacks with the help of an insect that carries it to many species. A Japanese beetle, for example, which eats something like two hundred different plant species, could infect many species with the pathogen it carries, and the pathogen might adapt to attack those species, lethally.

Meyerowitz: I can conceive of a totally lethal generalist: a pathogen that attacks chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are something that all plants have in common. They are crucial to photosynthesis (the process where a plant combines sunlight with carbon dioxide from the air, and water from its roots, to produce carbohydrates that it needs for growth). Without chloroplasts, a plant will die. Now suppose that some new pathogen evolves, for example in the oceans, that attacks chloroplasts. It could wipe out all algae and plant life in the oceans, and jump to the land where it wipes out all land plants. So everything becomes a desert. This is possible; I see nothing to prevent it. But it’s not very plausible. It is unlikely ever to happen, but it could be a basis for Cooper’s world.

These speculations give us a sense of the kinds of nightmare scenarios that could keep a biologist awake at night. In Interstellar, the focus is a lethal generalist blight running rampant over the Earth. But Professor Brand has a secondary worry: humankind’s running out of oxygen to breathe.
 
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^^ no, that astronaut didn't do time travel. Time is 4th D and they figured out that gravity was 5th D. They simply used the 5th D, as it was binding all the Ds together... ie, Common across all Ds.

I watched the movie long time back... Let me know if my understanding is not correct.
 
watch Primer (2004) for a complex plot. it's quite nice considering the fact that it was made on a shoestring budget. main actor, writer, director, producer and music composer are the same person.
 
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