This looks like an entertaining film that I'll probably try to see regardless of what may be a ridiculous premise of humanity's demise on Earth. And it is fascinating that the director involved Kip Thorne, one of the great theoretical physicists of our time. But Kip makes an error here:
I'm sorry, but a computer simulation can never be an observation. In the same way I didn't just drive in the Grand Prix when I put two quarters into the video game at the arcade. It was kind-of like I did, but I didn't really.
In the end, Nolan got elegant images that advance the story. [Kip] Thorne got a movie that teaches a mass audience some real, accurate science. But he also got something he didn't expect: a scientific discovery. “This is our observational data,” he says of the movie's visualizations. “That's the way nature behaves. Period.” Thorne says he can get at least two published articles out of it.
I'm sorry, but a computer simulation can never be an observation. In the same way I didn't just drive in the Grand Prix when I put two quarters into the video game at the arcade. It was kind-of like I did, but I didn't really.
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