If you had seen the movie interstellar then you are brave! If you have understood it after viewing it once then you are either lying or being pseudo brave!
The way it tells about Black hole and the passage of time is really super cool though! Then again this has been mentioned in a book written thousands of years back!
Hope you know Balarama!
The plough wielder!
The mighty mace warrior!
Guru to Bhima and Duryodhana
In Bhagwath Puranas he is known as the ninth Avatar of Vishnu
we will come to the link later!
Let us go back to Interstellar!
In movie interstellar, Coop’s (now do not ask me, Coop who!? The name is not important but the essence of the message is!) team decide to land on Dr. Miller’s (?? again not important!) ocean planet.
This planet is orbiting Gargantua, the massive glowing black hole that exists in the foreign galaxy. Due to Gargantua’s massive gravitational pull, “every hour on that planet is seven years on Earth”!
A massive tidal wave hits the spacecraft and delays their exit! When they finally go back to the space, by their calculation only three hours had gone! But for the person waiting for them in the dock and for people on the Earth; they find to their shock that 23 years have passed!
This is because Gargantua warps space-time; its gravitational strength bends Miller’s planet, stretching and squeezing it toward and away from the black hole. Einstein’s theory of relativity is key to all this. His revolutionary 1915 theory proposed that the larger the object, the more spacetime is warped and twisted.
One hour for someone maybe a lifetime for someone else! Coop’s daughter who was hardly 8 years old, three hours back is now close to 32 years! She has not been in touch with her father for so long! In fact when he goes to another planet and revisits his daughter on Earth station; his daughter is now an old lady over 90 years! While he was still 30 odd years old!
Emotional but so much science and physics which only Nolan being an engineer himself could have imagined!
Now for the interesting part (finally! I know reading this blog feels like being close to the black hole!!)
In Bhagwat Puran there is a story where the King of Mathura or Revata left to Brahma Lok to find a groom for his daughter REVATHY!
They will go and meet Brahma who was let’s just say a little busy so they waited for a while, then they met Brahma and were blessed that Revathy would marry a great warrior who wields a plough!
What they did not realise is that though it was only one year since they left Earth and went to meet Brahma; when they returned thousands of years had passed! Since one year for one year of Brahma and Brahma loka is many years for mankind and when they returned thousands of years had passed!
So much so that even humans who were apparently huge when Revata was king were the size you see today! Now of course all did end well in his case since Revathy did end up marrying Balarama!
But the warping of time and the passage of time close to the black hole and the Brahma loka would definitely make you wonder for a while or eternity depending on how close you are to the black hole!
Now if that is making your brain spin and dance then please do! As Remo D’Souza says! ABCD! Any body can dance!
Shubh Ratri!
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