However, Gargantua would have to fill half the sky in order for it to be so close. As such, faster than light travel is possible by bending and twisting space. But since the spin from Gargantua caused space to whirl around it similar to wind, Miller's Planet does not travel faster than light relative to its space as the laws of physics say you cannot travel faster than light relative to space, but space itself is not bound by the speed limit. On Miller's Planet, that means the planet orbits ten times a second around Gargantua, which is normally faster than the speed of light. It was also stated, Miller's Planet to outside observers orbits Gargantua every 1.7 hours. The sheer speed of Gargantua's rotation means there is a single stable orbit just outside of Gargantua's event horizon that is very stable. One of the main reasons Planet Miller isn't pulled into the black hole in spite of its proximity is that Kip Thorne made sure that Gargantua was a rapidly spinning black hole-and it turns out that the physics of rotating black holes differ from non-rotating ones. Partially alluded to in movie by the short reference to a neutron star being useful for slingshot maneuvers. By those same calculations, orbital transfers to Miller's would likely require slingshot maneuvers around intermediate mass black holes at both the start of maneuvers and at the end, as the energy requirements seemingly preclude other methods of getting the required energy. Miller's planet would have been under the level of the accretion disk and the event horizon would have covered 40% of the visible sky. Several of the visual effects were toned down severely from what it would actually look like the event horizon would be warped and red and blue shifted. Furthermore, it is an edge case in that it's somehow spun up to maximum minus 0.00000000000001 of the maximum, dragging space around it as it did so. I'm afraid, it's not possible to simulate Gargantua in the Orbiter, even roughly.īy calculations of Kip Thorne, Gargantua is about 100 million solar masses, placing it firmly as a supermassive black hole. Have you read Kip Thorne's "The Science of Interstellar" ? Therefore, the following change should be made to the configuration file for Mann:įinally, in order to solve the problem of Edmunds being too close to Pantagruel, the following change should be made to the former's configuration file: Of course, this means it will no longer look like a black hole, but this is a necessary sacrifice, since otherwise the add-on will not function properly.Īlso, I have noticed that Miller and Mann both seem to have the same orbital radius here, when presumably the latter is further away from Gargantua in the film (otherwise it would've suffered from the same time dilation problem as the former). In order to do this, you will have to rename Sun-Gargantua to simply Gargantua and delete the "planet" of the same name. Basically, instead of Gargantua and its "light source" being two separate objects, the two should be the same thing, like this: I think I may have found the solution to these problems.
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