The Science of Interstellar

27.5:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.

27.7:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.

27.9:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.

28.1:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.

28.4:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett

29.3:Tesseract: “Hypercube.” Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons—http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypercube.svg#mediaviewer/File:Hypercube.svg, adapted by Kip Thorne. Floating man: illustration by Cameron D. Bennett

29.4:Image of stars and galaxies: my distortion of Figure 2.1, which is courtesy NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (Racah Institute of Physics/The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team, and ESA. Shadow of floating man is adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett

29.5:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man adapted from illustration by Cameron D. Bennett. Girl adapted from illustration by Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com

29.6:Tesseract: “Hypercube.” Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons—http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypercube.svg#mediaviewer/File:Hypercube.svg, adapted by Kip Thorne. Floating man: illustration by Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com. Lines, arrows, and text: Kip Thorne

29.7:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com

29.9:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com

29.10:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett. Standing girl: Kamenetskiy Konstantin/Shutterstock.com

29.11:© Christopher Nolan

29.13:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Floating man: Cameron D. Bennett

30.5:Drawing © Kip Thorne. Shadow of floating man is adapted from an illustration by Cameron D. Bennett

30.6:M. C. Escher’s Waterfall © 2014 The M. C. Escher Company–The Netherlands. All rights reserved

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