Interstellar 1

Question 1

A disk structure formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central body is typically a star or a planet

Answer 1

Accretion-Disk

Question 2

A region of spacetime exhibiting gravitational acceleration so strong that nothing - no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light - can escape from it.

Answer 2

Blackhole

Question 3

Short for membrane. In the 5-dimensional bulk, it’s the 4-D spacetime {x,y,z,t} for a particular value of the “out-back” coordinate

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Brane

Question 4

The study of how forces in the 5-D bulk can cause effects in our brane.

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Brane Cosmology

Question 5

A situation where universe (our brane) is chaotically oscillating around gravitational singularity

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Chaotic-Singularity

Question 6

A colloquial interpretation is “things like to live where they age most slowly and gravity pulls them there”. Or the Earth’s mass warps time and the time warp is perceived as gravity. This is a measurable effect and is more important correction in the GPS system

Answer 6

Einsteins Law of Time Warps

Question 7

A boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer on the opposite side of it. Most commonly associated with black holes, where gravitational forces are so strong that light cannot escape.

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Event horizon

Question 8

The optical effects caused a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer that is capable of bending the light from the course as the light travels toward the observer.

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Gravitational lensing

Question 9

Disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light

Answer 9

Gravitational Waves

Question 10

USNA class of 1940. Served on the USS Lexington in the Pacific. An American physicist.

Answer 10

Joe Weber

Question 11

An effect inclulded in images generated for the movie to give a realistitc photographic effect.

Answer 11

Lens flair

Question 12

Laser Interferometry Gravitational wave Observatory

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LIGO

Question 13

1. Nothing will violated the firmly established laws of physics.
   
   1. Speculations about poorly understood laws and the universe will arise from real science.

Answer 13

Movie Guidelines

Question 14

A spread-out __ of gravitational wave observatories in the U.S., Europe, and India is needed to:

1. improve confidence in detection of events
2. extract higher quality chirp waveforms
3. determine the location of the source by triangulation

Answer 14

Networks

Question 15

A type of stellar collision. It occurs in a fashion similar to the rare brand supernovae resulting from merging white dwarfs

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Neutron Star Merger

Question 16

One possible name for the 5th dimension coordinate. It is often discussed similar to a spatial-like dimension

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Out-back

Question 17

It is not clear if wormholes actually can exist. Calculations indicate if one is created, the walls will attract each other and __.

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Pinch-off

Question 18

A field of theorectial physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics, and where quantum effects cannot be ignored, such as near compact astrophysical objects where the effects of gravity are strong.

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Quantum Gravity

Question 19

A general mathematical concept where at a point a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point of an exceptional set where it fails to be well-behaved in some particular way..

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Singularity

Question 20

Another name for the collection of {x,y,z,t}. The concept fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum.

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Spacetime

Question 21

A black hole that possesses angular momentum.

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Spinning Blackhole

Question 22

A construction used to represent {x, y, z, outback} with time illustrated differently.

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Tesseract

Question 23

The apparent rise and fall of water of water levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun.

Answer 23

Tidal Wave

Question 24

A speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime.

Answer 24

Wormhole